INDUSTRIAL TURMOIL.
MINERS' GRIEVANCES,
DEMAND i?OR HIGHER PAY.
(Received June 6, 9.5 a.m.) \LONDON, June 5. , The Scottish Coal Conciliation Board considered the miners' demand for an advance of twenty-five per cent, equal to a shilling a day, on the basis of rates. The parties failed to agree and referred the matter to a neutral chairman. The Northumberland Miners' Association rejected a proposal to link all industrial workers in a single union, and unanimously decided to ask the Miners' Federation to secure legislation giving State • insurance to miners whose age and infirmities pervented them earning the minimum wage, by means of, a special tax on the profits of coal mining. .
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Northern Advocate, 6 June 1912, Page 5
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