MINERS GOING BACK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19488, 18 November 1926, Page 13

MINERS GOING BACK.

850,000 NOW AT WORK. BUSH IN GLAMORGANSHIRE. POLICE FORM A QUEUE. DEBATE IN COMMONS. UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received 12.45 a.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON. Nov. 16 There are now 350.000 coalminers at work, of whom 12,984 returned to-day. There was such a rush in Glamorganshire that the police were compelled to form a workers' queue outside the collieries. The prospects from all the coalmining districts are reported to be good, with hopes of providing full employment, for practically all the men. The first export cargoes were shipped from Newport to-day. In the House of Commons to-day Sir Kingslcy Wood, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, introduced a supplementary estimate of £3,250,000 for the relief of unemployment. Sir Kingsley said this would make the total- expenditure on relief £5,471,000 Tffis was wholly due to the coalmining strike. The increase in receipts for his depart ment since May 1 was £1,162,000. Miss Susan Lawrence. Labour member for East Ham, moved the reduction of the vote to call attention to the policy of expecting the repayment of loans to strikers- when tho money was needed to feed future citizens. Miss E. ■ Wilkinson, Labour member for Middlesbrough, drew a pathetic picture of men and women who had got into debt during their unemployment, and had never been able to recover. Miss Margaret Bondfield, Labour member for Wallsend, urged the desirableness of so training youths that their labour would be more fluid and adaptable. Training centres for the young were badly needed. Tho Minister of Health, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, replying to .the debate, said it was not unfair to say the coal strike had been financed by the Board of Guardians, but he could not agree that it was the dnty of the Government to maintain anybody who had disputes .with their employers., . ■ . Owing to the fact that a large part of the relief had been given in kind and children had been fed in tho schools the children had been better fed than they were when their fathers were working. The vote was carried by 215 votes to 81 and tho House adjourned.

A message from Moscow says the Soviet trades unions have remitted a further sum of £65.000 to the British coalminers,