BOTH RIGHT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 20 July 1925, Page 5

BOTH RIGHT

PRICE OF COAL THE TROUBLE

BRITISH MINING CRISIS

DEADLOCK CONTINUES

'By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australia* & N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON. July 19.

The will deadlock wntiues. The (lovernment inquiry will be resumed on Monday, but the miners will not he represented. Mr Cook is spending the week-end preparing the miners’ case for a special meeting of the Trade Union Congress at London on Friday. While it is agreed that an industrial alliance council cannot be created in time to help the miners next month, plans are being prepared by which a union can take a ballot of members quickly on the question of .supporting the miners by embargoes against the handling of coal, a lighting fund, etc.

Mr Thomas Railway Union olticial. speaking at Bakcwcll (Derbvshirc) on Saturday said: "Things never looked blacker. Yon cannot expect to find contentment when workmen are denied a living wage.” Sir E. Worthington Evans, speaking at Dutimow. said the didiculty of the positioii is that both men and employers are in the right. What is wrong is the world price of coal.

LONDON. Julv 17,

The Miners’ Federation to-night informed the Court of Inquiry that miners cannot participate in proceedings when the terms ol reference and constitution of the Court is so obviously designed to justify the present attack on the mine workers' standard of living.

PROJECT DELAYED

LONDON. Julv 19,

A momentous union conference to consider the proposed industrial alliance was by no means unanimous. It did not approve of the constitution, hut according to the Daily Herald resolved to.recommend individual executives to consider it and report at another conference iri the near future.

The Daily Express assorts that critics riddled the draft constitution, one clause of which provided that the directing committee should have power to call out all unions without reference to individual unions. Tins is regarded as an opening to dangerous possibilities. Furthermore, the constitution trenched on the functions vested in the Trades Union Congress. The decision means that the project will be seriously delayed. Mr Clvnes remarked that it could not be ready in time for the miners’ dispute.