REJECTED

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 21 May 1926, Page 5

REJECTED

MR BALDWIN’S PROPOSALS.

BY OWNERS AND MINERS

LONG STOPPAGE PLANNED

EY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, May 19. The Daily Mail states tfiiit both owners arm miners have rejected Mr. Baldwin’s proposals. The Daily chronicle’s Labour correspondent states that some mmebers pt tne miners’ executive favour declaring all pits uneconomic which cannot pay the wages the miners had' before the stoppages. They say that if this blunt fact were put 'up against the coal owners all sides would discover exactly where they were. The signincant part of the miners' deliberations to-day was the consideration of plans for a long coal stoppage. The .leaders think that if they raise a fund of from one to two millions sterling, including the £266,000 from Russia, the miners would be able to continue the stoppage from three to six months. Altogether the miners consider that they are in a strong position, and are ready to maintain an uncompromising attitude for a long time.

RUSSIAN LEADERS’ STATEMENTS. INQUIRIES BEING MADE. LONDON, May ID. In the House of Commons Mr. Kin tiers ley. drew attention to the yr*%statements made by Zinovieff, Trotsky, W and Rnclek, declaring that the British strike was political and an important stage towards a Communist revolution, also extolling the value of the Russian contributions. He asked, in view of the statements, whether it was intended to make representations to Moscow. Sir Austen Chamberlain replied that he was awaiting further inform at ion before deciding. .

SOURCES OF TAXATION. AFFECTED BY THE STRIKE. ’ LONDON, May 19. In the House of Commons, Mr. Graham moved the rejection of the Finance Bill, on the grounds that it dicl not embody the recommendations of the Taxatioii Commission. The Rt. Hpn. Walter Runciman said that the Chancellor’s estimate of the strike’ losses was three-quarters of a million, and was out of 'alt proportion to the injury to trade, which he per•onally estimated as follows: Coal,' £7,000,000; railways, £8,000,000. Iron, steel, and textile losses brought up the total to £30,000,000. All this meant shrrrnk;n sources of taxation.

RUSSIAN HELP ACCEPTED

LONDON, May 19. The mineirls’ executeve has fannually accepted a contrib.uitiop. of £260,0b'. • from the Russian miners to help the British miners. Jjfc is reported that assisifcanica is conii n.s from, all bio-ns, home and ahioatl. and that il necessary, the miners will be ahlc to carry on the strike for weeks.

. WAGES AND REORGANISATION. EXECUTIVE’S POLICY. "LONDON May 19. ”*• lit iiS unde retard thait the .executive of the Miners’ federation will recommend the delegate conference to-mor-row to endorse the reorganisation proposal in the report of the Royal Commission. tout to' reject the immediate wage reduction implications continued in the Goverinnent’s proposals and the Cbmimiiasii,oil’s report. The policy of the executive- is based ou reports from the coalfields indicating fairly general resistance to any departure iron the existing wage standard iab least pending the reoi'gamisation of the industry. It is believed the delegates' .will accept this rectommeniati on practically unanimously tout there is still some hope that the situation will change shortly. It is regamdrd as significant that the executive will propose that the delegate conference after endorsing the recommendation. shall adjourn until Friday to eniabte the executive to conduct any further negotiations possible'.

ITNIEVIPLOYMENT INCREASED

LONDON, May 19. The effects of the strike are shown m an announcement by the Ministry of Labour that the registered unemployed on Mav 10 totalled 1,576,000, an increase of 370,000. compared with the week previously. In addition, no. tices of claims for benefit' were given in respect of 325,000 miners and 200,000 strikers in. other industries, who formed part of the large number of strikers not included in the total 1,570,000.

PROLONED STOPPAGE EXPECTED

THF: GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSIBILITY.

/ "Received 10.40 a.m. to-day. -yi LONDON, May 20. TOe Daily Mail states that the miners rejected Mr Baldwin’s proposals because they believed the chairman' of the- ’Wages ‘ Board would possess arbitration nowcrs in the event of a dispute. The owners and miners have thus again refused to lie'p themselves, necessitating the Government imposing a settlement in which its powers are limited, leading probably to" a prolonged stoppage. —Sydney Sun Cable..