BRITISH COAL STRIKE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19964, 4 December 1926, Page 13

BRITISH COAL STRIKE

EMERGENCY REGULATIONS. TERMINATION ANNOUNCED. LABOUR MOTION OF CENSURE. (Frau Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, December 2. (Received Dec. 3, at 5.5- p.m.) In the House of Commons Sir W. Joyn-son-Hicks (Hbmo Secretary) announced that the Coal Emergency Regulations, except those preventing export, would be lifted at midnight. Mr Baldwin announced that Wednesday would be set apart for Labour’s censure motion on the coal crisis, the terms of which complain of the disregard of the Royal Commission's findings, the Ministry’s partiality to the owners, and the imposition of harsh terms by the owners, the only remedy for which, it declares, consists in the nationalisation of the industry.—A. and N.Z. Cable. HISTORY OF THE STRIKE. MR COOK TO ENLIGHTEN MOSCOW. LONDON, December 2, Mr A. J. Cook has left London for Moscow. Interviewed by the Daily Express, he said: “Russia will want me to answer various questions. I will tell exactly what I know—namely, that the miners’ defeat was due to the policy of the Trades LTnion Council, first, in calling off the general strike; secondly, in refusing to enforce the embargo on foreign coal; and, finally, because the trade unions of England left the miners to fight alone. I will tell them that_ the inaction and opposition of the British leaders, particularly that of Mr Bromley and Mr Thomas, prevented a levy on the workers’ earnings. Russia will regard the absence of British delegates from the Trade Unions Council as a rebuff to the Russian workers. Nevertheless, I will tell Russia that, despite Britain’s trade union leaders, the rank and file are heart and soul with the Russians, and also that the increased bitterness of the Government was due to the £1,250.000 sent to England.”—A. and N.Z. Cable.