"DIRECT ACTION" BALLOT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17258, 6 September 1919, Page 9

"DIRECT ACTION" BALLOT.

CONSIDERATION DEFERRED. TRIPLE ALLIANCE DECISION. UNION CONFERENCE AWAITED By Telegraph Press Association—Copyright (Received 10.30 p.m.) 'A. and N.Z. LONDON. Sept. 4. The Triple Labour Alliance has postponed consideration of the ballot on direct action until after the Trades Union Congress at Glasgow. ATTITUDE OF THE MINERS. DEMANDS OF THE ALLIANCE. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Sept. 4. The, decision of the Miners' Conference to support the ballot for direct action at to-day's meeting of the Triple Labour Alliance does not attract much attention, though it is believed in some quarters that the miners' vote will be sufficient to carry the resolution. To-day's motion relates to the ballot on conscription and intervention in Russia. It is considered unlikely that the miners would desire a national strike on these subjects while leaving the question of direct action on the nationalisation of mines to the Trades Union Congress. The most likely explanation will possibly be found in the passage in the speech delivered yesterday by Mr. Robert Bmillie, president of the Miners' Federation, in which he denied that the executive's recommendation meant the abandonment of direct action. They would never abandon the strike weapon, and whatever the Trades Union Congress did the miners reserved the right to deal with this matter and have another ballot if they thought fit. The Morning Post says that the miners' leaders fear that the men will not strike, and other means of securing their aims must be found. The Daily Herald (Labour) says the resolution means- that a general strike is a certainty unless certain things be done. At the forthcoming conference at Glasgow the Triple Labour Alliance will move a vote of censure on the Parliamentary Committee for refusing to call a special congress in connection with the demands of the alliance, and with otherwise failing to deal with the Government's challenge.