NO SIGN OF COLLAPSE

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12507, 24 July 1926, Page 7

NO SIGN OF COLLAPSE

BRITISH COAL DISPUTE MINERS TRYING TO STOP IMPORTS ’ MR COOK ON THIN ICE By - Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copvriylit \edrnlian and N.Z Cable Association. (Received July 23, 8.15 p.m.) LONDON, July 22. Here and there a ' few miners are returning to work each day, hut there is no sign of a general broak-up at presenT. Tho Government has issued the names of the committee which will consider co-operative coal selling, and is also arranging f or the committee to deal with- the methods of coal transport, which are considered wasteful. The Archbishop of York, defending the churches’ intervention, said the Government coulci not be allowed to leave the matter to he settled by the exhaustion of one of the parties. The “Daily Express’s” political correspondent mentions a feeling in official circles that tho activities of Blr A. J. Cook, the miners’ secretary, to prevent the importation of foreign coal into Britain are perilously near a breach of the emergency laws. FOREIGN MINERS REFUSE TO RESTRICT OUTPUT (Reoeived, July 23,: .8.15 p.m,). • i ry ■. PARIS, ’’July 22, The International rejected Mr Herbert Smith’s' motion, seeking to pledge the miners of countries to Work one day less while the strike in Britain lasts.