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COAL INDUSTRY.

PRIME MINISTER INTERVENES

MEETS MEN’S REPRESENTATIVES

Wild, ALSO MEET OWNERS

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

Received July 28, 12.5 p.m. LONDON, July 27

The Prime Minister, Mr Stanley-Ba-ld win, this morning, for the first time, intervened personally m the coal dispute. He conferred at Downing Street for three-quarters of an hour with a committee of the Trade Union Congress, which was empowered to act fo.r tlic miners. It is understood that ns a result of tire interview the Prime Minister has undertaken to handle the coai crisis himself. Mr Baldwin was accompanied by Mr Bridgeman, Sir A. Steel Maitland and Mr G. R. Lane Fox.

An official statement says that the trade union deputation urged the Prime Minister to make an early pronouncement requesting the owners to postpone their notices to withdraw their proposals, and to allow the men to work on the terms of the present agreement pending negotiations. The Prime Minister told the deputation that lie hoped to confer with the owners to-morrow. It is understood from an authoritative source that the deputation suggested that some form of outside mssistance to the coal mining industry was necessary if further serious difficulties were to be averted. —Reuter,

TEMPORARY SUBSIDY SUG-

GESTED

MFIN’S LEADER. PESSIMISTIC

Received July 28, 1.30 p.m. LONDON, July 27

It is persistently reported that the Government has considered the question of a temporary subsidy to the coai industry to tide oyer the present difficulty. * The Court of Inquiry is said to have made a recommendation; to this effect.

Mr. Cook, the miners’ secretary, in an interview, was pessimistic. He expressed the' opinion that there was very little hope of a peaceful settlement,_ as the statesmen seemed to have nothing better to suggest than a compromise by the miners. Mr. Stephen Walsh, in a speech at Wigan, characterised the coal owners’ proposals as infernal. Ho said the miners’ damns were not impossible. It was for the Government to. see that they were granted.—Reuter.

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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 28 July 1925, Page 9

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COAL INDUSTRY. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 28 July 1925, Page 9

COAL INDUSTRY. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 28 July 1925, Page 9

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