THE GOAL STRIKE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19412, 21 August 1926, Page 11

THE GOAL STRIKE.

new conference fails BOTH SIDES STAND FIRM. MIDLANDS DEVELOPMENT. A PRIVATE " AGREEMENT. SOME PITS TO BE OPENED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 8.30 p.m.) Banter. LONDON. Auk. 19. The conference between the coalminers and the mineowners has broken down. Tho deliberations lasted hours. It is understood that both sides adhered to their old positions. The mineowners insisted on an eight-hour day and the settlement of the wages question according to the economic position of the industry and district agreements. The miners insisted on a seven-hour day and o national agreement, refusing to move on the question of wages until they had definite guarantees regarding tfhe reorganisation of the industry. A statement issuer! by the Miners' Federation urges, the minors to stiffen: their resistance to the terms dictated by tho mineowners, which mean abject poverty and a scandalous lowering of the standard of living for a generation. It appeals to the public to support the miners, their wives and children. In the meantime it is announced that 13,000 Nottingham miness:privately negotiated with the Bolsover Colliery and accepted the wages being paid before tho strike for, a 7i-hours day. This constitutes the biggest breakaway from the Miners' Federation thus .far. Other Nottingham and Derbyshire owners have decided to open their pits on the same terms. The Government does not intend to intervene in. the dispute,.unless requested to do'so by either party. The Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, will leave at the week-end'for Aix-les-Bains, where he will remain for three weeks. The Minister of Labour, Sir A. Steei-Maitiand, has been delegated to act for the Government in* any situation that may arise during the recess If the situation does not change developments are probable when the House of -Commons "reassembles on August 30 to confirm the emergency regulations. As a result of the miners' meeting the Trades Union Council decided to appeal to British trade unions and the International Federation of Trade Unions to organise a campaign for financial assistance from Con-, tinental unibna. Representatives are going to Amsterdam for the purpose. , Fifty mounted arid foot police, dispersing a crowd ,of miners and their wives around a colliery at Hay dock, Lancashire, received jeers, hooting and a shower of bricks and stones. A baton charge fol- , lowed and' many were injured on both sides. ■ i'