COAL STRIKE CRISIS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 29 September 1926, Page 11

COAL STRIKE CRISIS

MINERS’ PROPOSALS.

FOR TRADE UNION HELP ONE PER, CENT. LEVY ON WAGES. liV CABLE--PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPTEIGHT. Received 1.30 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Sept. 28, The miners’ executive to-day proposed that the Trades Union Council impose,a levy of one per cent, upon all wages and salaries of affiliated members, on behalf of the miners, and arrange for an embargo upon the importation of coal. The council has not yet decided whether it will agree with the miners’ proposal, (but- has apparently (promised to inaugurate a •national campaign on the miners’ behalf. Meanwhile the miners’ executive is undecided .as to whether it will recommend districts to take a ballot upon the Government terms. It is likely to be some days before a decision can be made.

COTTON M I LLS AFFECTED

HOURS FURTHER) REDUCED

Received 1.30 p.m. to-day. LONDON. Sept. 28,

An overwhelming majority of spinners of American cotton, at iai meeting held in Manchester to-day, decided to close the mills for two weeks out of three.

The mills are already working half tune, but the coal dispute has increased the difficulties and hit. the industry hard. One hundred and twenty thousand operatives are affected. It is doubtful how they will regard further short time.

EMERGENCY REGULATIONS

DISCUSSION IN COMMONS.

MEN RETURNING TO WORK

Received 1.40 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Sept. 28. Tbe debate in the House of Commons included Mr. J. Catey’s (Labour, Spennyrnoor) amendment on regulation 14, making it obligatory for the Government to take over the 'mines, Mr. George Thorne (Liberal, Wolverhampton) stating the step. Was necessary in order to bring the mineowners to heel. The amendment Was rejected by 201 votes to 97, and the House then carried the continuance of the emergency regulations by 196 votes to 99. Sir Win. Joynson-Hicks, justifying the continuance of the emergency regulations, mentioned that there had been more offences during the last month than previously, mostly in counties where the men were returning to work. Labour, members challenged the Home Secretary to say how many miners had resumed. Sir Win. Joynson-Hicks said a hundred thousand, with sixty thousand safety men. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald contended that the regulations, by loosening the bewigged formality of the law, encouraged. the police to launch trivial prosecutions. The debate proceeded on party lines, and lifelessly beyond Labour challenges of individual clauses.