BRITISH MINERS' TACTICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19419, 30 August 1926, Page 6

BRITISH MINERS' TACTICS.

Sir, —During the general strike in Britain the New. Zealand Labour .Party made, a big cry of the Miners' Federation being altogether right and that miners' wages at Home were very low. Now the strike is over, we fined the Trades Union Congress has issued a report which contains the following scathing comments on the miners' leaders:—"lt is not 5 leadership merely to stand by while hundreds of thousands of men and their. families starve on a slogan; no real advance is made, and this, we feel, will become more manifest as time passes. To have adopted the slogan .of the miners' leaders would, on their own admission, if accepted, have meant the immediate throwing out of work of some 300,000 mine workers by the closing of uneconomic mines, Which appears too awful for any trade union leaders to contemplate; for to many thinking people it is bound to appear more sane for some highly paid men in a disorganised industry to suffer mere temporary reduction than to ! throw 300,000 workers and their families into destitution so that'a number.of men earning, on tho admission of Mr. Cook, the miners' secretary, from £5 to £l3ppre r week, may retain every penny of . their' present wages." Wages of £5 to £l3 a week—this is a flashlight; on the general outcry of miners working at starvation wages. The New Zealand Labour Party is silent about this report. jNiZ. Welfare. League.