GRAVE SITUATION

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 21 May 1926, Page 9

GRAVE SITUATION

IN MINING DISPUTE,

DEADLOCK REACHED AGAIN

MINERS’ OBJ ECrn ONS,

BY GABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 1.25 p.m. to-day. LONDON, M|ay 20. Coal negotiations have readied a deadlock despite certain hopes* which rested on to-dlay s conference. J.n. addition to maintaining their determined attitude against any .reduction pendreforganisiation, the miners expressed an objection to the wages board, with an independent chairman being empowered to establish national minimum and enforcing a varying minima throughout til lie districts. A resolution containing these objections was forwarded to Mr. Baldwin. The miners’ officials reassembled for a conference in the afternoon and adjourned until to-morrow. Tlliere will be an executive meeting to-night, mainly duo to tlie .possibility of an answer arriving from Mr. Baldwin. Officials do not disguise the gravity of the situation. They dec-lane that they will solidly adhere to their policy and they are expected to discuss tomorrow financial arbangmemts to carry on in event of a continued deadlock. — Aus.-N.Z. Gable Assn. MONEY FOR STRIKERS. ATTITUDE OF GOVERNMENT. LONDON, May 21. Asked if the Government could take steps to prevent £260,000 sent by the Russian trades unions to assist the miners coining into the country, Sir W. Joynson Hicks, said that whatever might be felt regarding the motives of the donors or the recipients, the Government did not fee.i able to but money remitted infurtherance or the general strike was on a different footing. He had stopped £IOO,OOO which had been sent for fomenting an illegal attack on the community. —A. and N. Z. Assn.