MINERS GOING BACK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19456, 12 October 1926, Page 9

MINERS GOING BACK.

BRITISH COAL DISPUTE. UNIONS LEAVE FEDERATION TACTICS NOT APPROVED. STAMPEDING TO WORK. STRIKE SPIRIT BREAKING. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 8.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON. Oct. 11. Tho first reply* to the decision of the conference of miners' delegates to withdraw the safety-men from tho mines Is the secession of the 1 Leicestershire miners from tho federation. At. a meeting of the council of the Leicestershire Union it was resolved»to call off the strike and to instruct all the miners in Leicestershire to report themselves for work. In tho course of au intensive campaign in Derbyshire the general secretary of the federation, Mr. A. <T. Cook, urged every miner who is at present working to again " down tools." He> said that if the men of Notts and Derbyshire decided to come out again victory -would bo certain within a week. Mr. Cook officially states that he holds that tho policy of flooding the mines by the withdrawal of, the safety-men is wrong. He has urgently appealed to tho miners not to vote for that measure. There is a serious division of opinion among the miners' leaders on the Cannock Chase coalfield. Only 12. out of 68 members of the local council are now attached to the Miners' Federation, The rest have stampeded back to work.