COAL SITUATION

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 18 June 1926, Page 5

COAL SITUATION

BREAKAWAY PROBABLE. OWNERS CONSIDERING WAGES BASED ON EIGHT HOURS’ DAY. BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT LONDON, June 17. •• Tli© c0.a.1 owners are working out. a (new wage (schedule ibaised' on an eight hours.’ clay. IndriiC.atio.ri® are that the next development after the passing of the “Hour® Bill,” will he. the pasting of fresh, notices tin the ooillieries announcing that work ©an ibe resumed immediately On these terms. The opinion is held' in, some quarters, that, whatever the leaders may say, the men will then Ibe .ready for resumption., and once the breaking begins, it will progress irresistibly. The Daily Telegraph ’« 'labour correspondent say® that i.n, districts' producing' fifty per cent, of the coal output, 'the owners have undertaken, to. pay pie's trike rates on. an eight hours’ day basis for the next three months. LONGER! HOURS. MR, CSOOK’S, DECLARATION. LONDON, June 16. “In®tend) of bringing peace, Mr. Balcltwin.’® statement will!L ©arise Labour to unlsheath' the i,sword in, defence of the .standai'd 1 of 'living/’ declared Air. Cook .secretary to the Miners’ Federation, in a bitter .statement. He added, “Air. Baldwin .confirmed what we always thought, that he was nothing i more nor leisis that tlhe caalowners 'advocate. He sided with owners in the face of bis own coal commission’® finding lagainslt increase hours. He must have known that such a suggestion would ibe fought to the last ditch by the miners, .and probably by tilie whole of '.organised Labour. No attempt, of .legislation ,f.o lengthen hour® will be agreed to-, even if starvation drivers hack ithe miners to. conditions which will always be resisted. There will be strong and .solid opposition to working irtore"than seven hours. No airila.ngemenibs have been made to. recall the executive. It i® obvious that while tihe (situation ocntinu©d a® it did. there was no isolution. ’ ’ —A us. and N.Z. Aissociataon.

G QV.ERNM ENT’S POLICY ■i CONDEMNED. PARLIAMENTARY LAiBOURI PARTY’S DECISION. LONDON, June 16. A meeting of .the Parliamentary Labour Paatty, presided aver by M.r. Ramsay MkcDanold, passed a resoilm tiorii condemning the Government is policy in the coal dispute, as declared by M,r. Baldwin i.n the House of Commons yesterday, and it was decided to offer strenuous resistance to his proposals. —Reuter.