COAL DISPUTE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 27 September 1926, Page 9

COAL DISPUTE

EXTRA EDITION.

ANOTHER DEBATE PROMISED.

SETTLEMENT NEEDED TO SAVE MINERS’ FEDERATION. ST CABLE —PBESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. Received 1.30 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Sept. 26. After tabling the emergency regulations the Government intends _ to-mor-row to move an adjournment in order to provide an opportunity for a general debate on the coal dispute. The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin) will make a general statement dealing with the recent negotiations. Mr Ramsay MacDonald and Mr Lloyd George will lead the Labour and Liberal attacks. It is an open secret that a majority of the miners’ executive has concluded that the time has come to obtain some sort of a settlement in order to save the existence' of the federation. The executive meets the Parliamentary Labour Party on Monday, the council of the Trades TTnion Congress on Tuesday, and the miners’ delegate conference on Wednesday.

LABOUR. MEMBERS SEEKING SETTLEMENT.

MR: COOK PROMISES HISTORIC . SCENE. T Received 11.30 a.m. to-day. ' LONDON, Sept. 26. Tli© miners’ executive will considei the Government’s decision on Monday. It "will also confer with the Labour members of the House of Commons. Mr Ramsay MacDonald, in an interview with the Daily Herald, said the Government must be made ]>rimarily responsible for the situation the industry was now facing, but the Labour members would continue their efforts to secure a settlement. . Mr Cook, speaking at the Memorial Hall', wished Mi- Baldwin to remember that he was the Prime Minister, not a coal owner. The fact that over 300,000 miners seldom brought home ‘£2 per week was the bottom ot the present struggle. The coal owneis would have been beaten long ago but for the protection of the State. It would be many weeks yet before the struggle was 1 finished. Starvation might do it. but a settlement thus imposed would be broken down as soon as possible. He concluded' by saying that every Labour member would be m his place in the House of Commons on Monday and Tuesday, and there would ba an historic scene.