COAL MINERS' STRIKE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 11 July 1921, Page 5

COAL MINERS' STRIKE

DEBATE IN COMMONS,

' ATTACK ON LLOYD GEORGE

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYKXGKi LONDON, July 8. The House of Commons, debated the coal strike. , ,

Mr J. Gould (Unionist1), a Cardiff shipowner, in a striking speecn, expressed doubt whether "tne settlement would guarantee an increased output. He declared that 150,000 miners wouio be displaced in the. industry.

Lord Robert Cecil (Unionist) biamea the Government for its handling of tne struggle, particularly Mr Lloyd George's attack on Labour in a recent speech.

Mr Lloyd George hotly protested that this was misrepresentation, wnen Lord Ho&ert Cecil sat down. He described Lord Robert Cecil's speech as an unfair travesty, and said that what he said was that in labour" disputes the trouble is not with the responsible leaders, but with the corporals, whom you never see, but who have the -real power and no responsibility.'

Mr W- Adamson (Laoour) said the miners returned to "Work in anything but an amicable frame of mind. The question whether the miners were tp pull the chestnuts out of the fire for British industry of not .was one. which would find a ready response in the minds of the, miners at the present time. He urged an amnesty to the men imprisoned for .-offences during the strike, even if the offenders were* communists.