MINERS’ STRIKE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 7 August 1926, Page 5

MINERS’ STRIKE

CONDITION OF FAMILIES.

LABOUR LEADER’S REPLY.

TO MIR. BALDWIN’S STATEMENT.

8Y CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —CO? f BIGHT

Received 11.30 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Aug. 6. ReipTying 'to the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin’s statement, Mr. A. J. Cook, Secretary of the Miners’ federation, said that it was entirely misleading to suggest that families of miners were decently looked .after bv the poor re]ie.f authorities. Often there were only five or six shillings for au entire family for a, week. Young unmarried men were not getting relief. “As conditions cannot he exaggerated. America ■should ■realise that the miners themselves are dictating the federation’s policy, they are not being led.”—A,us. N.Z. Cable Assn. MR. COOK ABUSES PRIME MINISTER. CHURCH LEADERS’ NEW MANIFESTO. LONDON, Aug. 5. Mr. A. J. Cook, .secretary to the Miners’ Federation, speaking at Clapham, .said that Mr Baldwin hail stoopped .so low as to send a message to America before the arrivaL of the miners’ delegations. Mr. Baldwin, lie said, had" lied about the position in order to prevent funds from coming to the miners’ ■help. That was the death knell of Toryism. Mr. Baldwin had made himself, in tire eyes of every human soul, nothing but an inhuman monster. The Bishops and the Free Church leaders, in .a new manifesto, state that they are aware .that the Government will reject their scheme on financial grounds, but they point out that Hie country is losing more each week than would -be involved in a settlement.