THE STRIKE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 7 May 1921, Page 5

THE STRIKE

PROPOSALS FORMULATED.^

APPOINTMENT OF ARBITRATOR

RIOTING IN STRIKE AREAS

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRCfeSf' .LONDON, May:& The Daily Mail states that sfche Labour Party in the House of Commons and a group of private -members of'the House held a conference -aftd formulated proposals, which, will be submitted.to the GoverhMisnt. 'SDhfese proposals are designed to secure a temporary coal settlement. The outstanding feature is' the ;pro.pcrse((i appointment of Mr Arthur Duck-haan, a member ofi the Sanfcey 'Commission, as arbitrator.. • • A lobbyist states th&t this action followed from authentic 'information that the miners in Lanarkshire, NorlnumDurham, fttifroingham, awd •l)e»byfik'irfe 'eWStf^stly desire to resume work, .that the miners' execute is hopeftal of reffewed intei-vention at an -early date, and -ghato the Miners' Federation would accept Mr Duckiiam'a appointment. LONDON,, Mt y 6. Here & a :nmfbed recrudescence or ■rioting in Siftfe flstrJte areas. Miners •at HiU-df-Beathcolliery, in= Fifeshire,- Wocfceia the xaflway tlines $• prevent coal transport.* ; A military guard ih«B -ib»en sgent to the j&ace. 'Demonstrations against safety men have been resumed in several parts of the Rhondda Valley,', where, two hundred .police sere ofaoduty. Twenty-five lorries laden with and proceeding from Wigaa io Rochdale, were -surrounded by am excited mob, who .wsmovetl tfche coal ■Bud 'damaged some of the lorries. 1 Mhiers' efforts to prevent the Bale of slack lor industrial fuel led to, serious disfctrfbattces it Cradley Ifeath, in Staffordshire. The police mafic three Ib&ton .charges, one man being "injured, 'while ifcKee^were arrested. Similar trouble oceorrefi °4t "Halesoweri, "Worcester. '

Miners, armed with picks, formed a. proceßskm to Accrington to prevent the froßKc removing coal from ■a.n, T&utcrop, ■''btft "fhe police persuaded the miners to "heave, promising that tire public woulH wot%e allowed to take •such coal.