BRITISH MINERS

Grey River Argus, 29 October 1926, Page 5

BRITISH MINERS

T.U.C. OVERTURES. TO THE CQVLR.N’fttNT. LOSTDON, Oct. 27. Following upon the Trades Union Ct i.ncil ini -i\i-w will. -Mr Baldwin, the Trades i i.u •. Gtufal Council cided to ask 11 • \O. • c" ’ Executive to meet them a. the earliest moment. It is stall'd that the object is to secure authority J’or the-Miners leder ation to ask ini- Go\e’'iim(‘i;l to summon a conferee• <.f coal owners and miners to di.-cu." i .s-ttlemeht, on the basis o. the < ■>:.! Coiriniiision s report. ‘MICKS ’ ASD HIS POLICE. THREAT TO GO FURTHER. LONDON, Oct. 27. Sir W. Jovnson lii<-ks, in a speech at Aylesbury, said that seme people considered it was not the Government’s duty to interfere in the coal strike in the way the Government had done, but the Government was bound, to try to bring the terrible dispute to an end. Lt had failed gloriously, but it was no use having another conference when the miners refuse to face economic facts. lie added that the Government was determined to maintain peace, ami while one miner dcs’rod work, the Government would use the whole of its resources to protect him. “If Mr Cook asks th.* miners to obey the Council of War, in opposition to the Government, I tell him that the resources of civilisation are not exhausted.” AUSTRALIAN EXPORTS. SYDNEY, Oct. 28. In addition to the Waikawa, eight ither vessels have been chartered to load coal for South American ports, owing to the coal strike, in England. Shortages of coal supplies have also occurred in Egypt. Already one vessel has been chartered to load coal in Australia for an Egyptian port. MINERS’ ENVOY IN AUSTRIA. (Received October 28. at 5.5 p.m.) VIENNA, October 27. The Austrian police have ordered a British miners’ missionary here to discontinue his propaganda.