THE MINING CRISIS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10883, 25 April 1921, Page 5

THE MINING CRISIS

A JOINT CONFERENCE FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS OF YORKSHIRE ASSOCIATION. KING’S COAL FOR POOR. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received April 24, 0.0 p.m.) LONDON, April 22. . A joint conference of the Government, the owners, and the miners sat for an hour and a half and adjourned till Monday to permit the owners to submit fuller details of their proposals. The raiders evacuated Transport House after an understanding had been effected with the union. The Yorkshire - Miners’ Association has paid out to members £BO,OOO, having borrowed £50,000 from the Amalgamated Engineers’ Society. LONDON, April 23. The King has dispatched fifty tons of ooal f«om the Palace collars for distribution among London’s poor. THE MINERS’ CONFERENCE CONFIDENCE IN MR HODGES. LONDON, April 22. The Miners’ Conference passed a motion of confidence in Mr Hodges (secretary), and also emphatically protested against the railiwaymen’s and transporters’ official explanation attributing their defection to the refusal of the miners to meat the owners, and declaring that the .cause of the unjustifiable withdrawal can only be looked for in the character and structure of the Triple Alliance itself. The Glasgow dockers refuse to handle coal from Home and foreign ports. Five vessels with coal for the Scottish railways are held up. COAL FROM ABROAD THE TRANSPORTERS’ DECISION. (Received April 24, 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 24. The Transporters’ Federation executive has adopted a resolution calling on members to Tef use to bunker ships taking less than the normal quantity of bunker coal in order to roach Continental, American, or colonial coaling ports. They have also declared that labour must not be provided towards the discharge of Continental or American coal as this would be strike breaking. The federation will communicate with the International Transporters’ conference at Geneva, asking its cooperation in refusing to transport coal to Britain for strike-breaking purposes. (Received April 24, 5.5 ji.m.) LONDON, April 23. The Congress unanimously carried Mr Bevm’s resolution instructing the European and American transporters and railwaymen to refuse to handle coal likely to be sent to Britain during the strike.