NOT OVER YET

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 August 1925, Page 5

NOT OVER YET

BRITISH COAL CRISIS. AIR COOK’S FORECAST. POLITICAL CRISIS SOON. . BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRXGH'I LONDON, Aug. 9. Air A. J. Cook (secretary of the Aliners’ Federation), speaking at Meadowfield, declared: “The Government, with the largest majority m modern times, has not been able to stand against united Labour’s steam •.oiler. The struggle is not- finished. Let me warn friend Baldwin that what we did last week we can and will do again. . n “The commission of inquiry should be described as an inquest upon private ownership,” added the speaker. “The latter’s failure is going to cost the nation from £10,000,000 to £30,000,000. Before long there will be the greatest political crisis in British history. Labour is then going to sweep to Victory.”

DISPUTE IN U.S.A. POSSIBILITIES OF A STOPPAGE. NEW YORK, Aug. 9. A telegram from Atlantic City, New Jersey, says the hope that the anthracite coal operators and miners , might reconcile their differences in time to avert the suspension of work on September I has faded. Mr John Lewis, president of the United Aline Workers, informed Air Samuel AVarriner, chairman of the operators’ conference, that further negotiations are useless until the operators abandon their opposition to increases in tvages and the adoption of the check-off system.