TO END COAL DEADLOCK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17782, 16 May 1921, Page 5

TO END COAL DEADLOCK

INTERVENTION BY PREMIER NEW CONFERENCE SUGGESTED CONCILIATION URGED. By Telegraph— Press Association—Copyright. (Received 11.5 p.m.) United Service. LONDON. May 13. The Parliamentary correspondent of the Daily Mail writes that Mr. Lloyd George is personally summoning the coalowners and miners to a new conference on Wednesday or Thursday to try to end the deadlock. Neither the Government nor the Parliamentary Labour Party anticipate serious trouble from the railwaymen, despite the threatened Scottish strike. Nevertheless, much bitterness and class strife exists. The struggle has reached a stage calling for statesmanlike handling. (Received 11.30 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON. May 13. On Amotion for the adjournment of the House of Commons. Mr. J. R. Clynes, leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party, pressed the Government to bring both sides in the coal dispute together again. If a reasonable offer were made to the miners he believed the men would accept but sacrifices, he added, must be made on both sides. Mr. Vernon Hartshorn (Labour) said that the Government should insist on both parties hammering out a solution of the problem. General H. Page Croft (National Party) asserted' that the inspirers of the industrial upheaval were hand in glove with Moscow. Mr. Robert Williams, secretary of the Transport Workers' Federation, Mr. C. T. Cramp, industrial secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, and Mr. Frank Hodges, secretary of the Miners' Federation, were, he said, declared revolutionaries. Np further evidence was required to enable the Government to proceed against them for high treason.

Mr. Lloyd George said that the Government was watching developments with regard tx> revolutionary movements. Should special legislation be necessary, he would not hesitate to ask the House., He could not say to what extent these revolutionary movements were subsidised with foreign money.

Before the parties in the coal dispute got together again, continued the Prime Minister, the ** never never " mood must evaporate. The Government wanted an assurance that the parties woks in a better mood to negotiate. It did not want to see the miners starved into submission, but it must find fair means for dealing with the dispute not destructive to any other industry. RAILWAYMAN'S DECISION. EMBARGO ON IMPORTED COAL Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. CRecd. 10.6 ix-m.) LONDON, May 13The joint conference of the executives of the National Union of Railwaymen and the Transport Workers' Federation resolved to tighten the embargo on imported coal. The executive of the National Union of Railwaymen has: ordered members not to handle imported coal for any purpose whatever, nor to handle coal loaded by non-union labour. Women visiting the West Lothian colliery in order to demand the withdrawal of Volunteers, after receiving an assurance of compliance, found and ate the supper laid for the volunteers. ' COAL FROM BELGIUM. DOCKERS OPPOSE EXPORT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. <Recd. 8-30 p.m.) ANTWERP, May 13. Dockers here i refuse to handle coal intended for England.