PRIVATE AGREEMENTS

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

PRIVATE AGREEMENTS

IN COAL DISPUTE. MINERS BREAK AWAY NOTTINGHAM MOVEMENT. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, Aug. 19. Thirteen thousand Nottingham miners privately negotiated with the Bolsover colliery and accepted pre-strike wages for a 71- hour day. This .constitutes the biggest breakaway from Mr Cook's federation thus far. Other Nottingham and Derbyshire owners have decided to open their pits on the same terms. CLASH WITH THE POLICE. LONDON, Aug. 19. Fifty mounted police, dispersing a crowd of miners and their wives around a colliery at Haydock, Lancashire, were received with jeers, hooting and showers of bricks and stones. A baton charge followed, many being injured on both sides. GOVERNMENT WILL NOT INTERVENE. T.U.C. CAMPAIGN FOR FUNDS. LONDON, Aug. 19. The Government does not intend to intervene in the coal dispute ■without a request from the parties. Sir Ramsay Steel-Maitland has been delegated to act for the Government in any situation that may arise during recess. If the situation be unchanged then developments are probable w r hcn the House of Commons reassembles on August 150, to confirm the emergency regulation. As a result of the miners' meeting, the. Trades Union Council decided to push trade unions and the International Federation of Trade Unions to organise a campaign for iinaneial assistance from Continental unions, Trades Union Council representatives going to Amsterdam for that purpose.

MINERS' DELEGATES RETURN HOME Received 11 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Aug. 20. The Miners’ Federation sat privately for three hours. It was agreed to send the Government a verbatim report of the proceedings at yesterday’s meeting with the owners, after which the members returned to their districts. —Reuter.