MINERS ON STRIKE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 255, 25 September 1935, Page 7

MINERS ON STRIKE.

DISPUTE IN AMERICA. EARLY SETTLEMENT LIKELY. I WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. Four hundred thousand bituminous | coal miners in 27 States are idle toj day, a month’s negotiations between unions and operators reaching a deadlock early this morning. The strike was called at the last minute. All the differences were settled excepting the rate of pay for piece mining, and then the demands of the union were only three cents a ton in excess of the owners’ offer. Later today, it is said, the conference came within 1.5 cents of agreeing, but beyond that neither side was willing to will be continued under the direction of the Dej>artment of Labour in the hope of settling the strike before a shortage is felt. During the first day of the walk-out no disorders were reported. A later message states that a continuation of the strike for at least one more day came to-night, when the committee of Appalachian producers and the united mine workers, who are seeking a new wage and hour agreement, went into recess until to-morrow without reaching an agreement. Mr Edward McGrady (assistant-Secretary ot Labour) said he was still hopeial or an early agreement, the two sides having agreed on all terms but tlie new wage for tonnage men.