COMMUNISTS’ LAST BID FOR MINE CONTROL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 February 1930, Page 5

COMMUNISTS’ LAST BID FOR MINE CONTROL.

PROMISED FINANCIAL AID NOT FORTHCOMING

RED INFLUENCE WANING..

Received Sunday, 7 p.m. SYDNEY, Feb. 9,

It is reported that Communist emis saries are making final desperate efforts to secure supremacy in the coalfields and control the big aggregate meeting which is being hold on Tuesday. The moderates, however, are said to be continuing in opposition to the Reds whose promise of financial aid to the miners if they should fight has not been fulfilled.

Fines totalling between £SOO and £6OO were imposed on miners as the result of the recent disturbances but not a penny of Red money has thus far been forthcoming. The Miners’ Federation will not pay, because it did not countenance the mess demonstrations The only hope of the convicted men. numbering about 100, escaping gaol is that the Communists will honour their promise to pay hut the feeling prevails that they will repudiate it . If the extremists fail to rush the ag! r rc' r a.to meeting' th'ur influence is expected to wane rapidlv. There m a growing body of moderate opinion among the manors in favour of a settlement.

A statement has published that the minors intended officiallv to advise the Federal Government tn-dnv of, their bed-roek terms of compromise hmt ttro Federation secretary. Mn. Davies, dories :>nv knowledge of it.

Mr A. Woods, delegate from the New Zealand Minoworkors Association says the Dominion miner’s will pay a lew of per cent of their earninvs towards the relief of idle New South Wales minors