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COAL TRADE ORIISIS
SUPPORT FOR. MINERS
UNIONS PRFJPARING. 3Y C4BLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received July 20, 11.35 a.m. UONDON, July 19. The coal deadlock continues. The Government inquiry will be resumed on Monday, but the miners will not be represented. Air. Cook is spending the week-end preparing the milieus’ case for a> special meeting of the Trade Union Congress to be held at London on Friday. While it is agreed that an industrial alliance cannot be created in time to help the miners next month, plans are being prepared by which a union can take a ballot of members quickly on the question of supporting the miners by embargoes against handling of coal, a fighting fund, etc. Mr. • Thomas, the railway union official, .speaking at Bakewell, Derbyshire, on Saturday >said: “Things never looked blacker. You cannot expect to find contentment where workmen are denied a living wage." Sir L. Worthington Evans, speaking 'at Dunmow, said that the difficulty of the position! is that both men 'and employers are in the right. What is wrong is the world price of coal.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 20 July 1925, Page 5
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