MINING FRICTION
f NEW PROPOSAL ADVANCED ULTIMATE FUSION OF UNIONS (Received May 7, 6.5 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY. May 0 The optimism felt in Parliamentary circles after the speech by the Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, in the Flcusc of Commons, that the threatened
stoppage iof work on the coalfields would be averted is shared by the newspaper*, most of which comment on Mr." Baldwin's striking utterance. New moves to bring about a settlement of the dispute at Harworth, Nottinghamshire,'were set on foot soon after the debate concluded. The Secre- ' tary for Mines. Captain H. F. C. Crooksbank. will meet the Miners' Federation executive to-day to discuss
a fresh proposal, aimed, it is stated., at the ultimate fusion with the federation of th' l Miners' Industrial Union, which is/ a local organisation and is in conflict with the major miners' union. STRIKE NOTICES FEDERATION TO SUSPEND i LONDON, May 6 In response to the appeal by the Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, in the House of Commons, the executive of j the Miners' Federation is willing to suspend the handing in of j notices for a fortnight as from Satur- < day if a conference can 'oe arranged j of'the three parties concerned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22723, 8 May 1937, Page 14
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