MINE-OWNER FORETELLS BARRICADES ’ERE LONG

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2314, 5 December 1925, Page 9

MINE-OWNER FORETELLS BARRICADES ’ERE LONG

Bolshevik Control leans Bloodshed ANGLO-GERMAN COAL ENTENTE SUGGESTED [By Electric Cable—Copyright, j [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, December o. Before the Goal Commission, Mr. C. P. Markham, managing director of collieries, raising ten million tons a year, made an outspoken attack on tho Miners’ Union. b Ho declared that since the miners’ feusiness had got into lie hands of feolsheviks, there had been nothing |ut trouble. Many recent strikes were iu e to hot-headed agitators, who imBosed their wills in ignorant, indif■;rent workers. E There was not a collier’s house, he Bud .to-day which did not spend from ft/. to 10/- a week at the cinemas. He Briieved that the trouble was not goBig to stop without bloodshed, but ■ire bloodshed would be due to the Elinors, not to the owners. The Commission was only putting off the evil clay; there must be a light whatever the Commission decided. GERMAN DOING HIS SHARE. MORE PITS CLOSED IN BRITAIN THAN IN RUHR. LONDON, December 3. Mr. Prank Hodges, in evidence before the Coal Commission, declared that the Ruhr miners ’output had considerably increased. The , German was prepared to do his share of the work. More pits \yere closed in Britain than in the Ruhr. Mr. Evan Williams, president of the Mining Association, asked whether Mr. Hodges seriously believed m the possibility of an Anglo-German coal entente. Mr. Hodges said that it was just aa possible as the Locarno Pact was between nations which had been, recently fighting.