BRITISH MINING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22713, 28 October 1935, Page 8

BRITISH MINING

GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION DEPARTMENTAL PROPOSALS REJECTED (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, October 25. (Received Oct. 27, at 5.5 p.m.) As a result of Government intervention with the owners, the Secretary of Mines, Captain Crookshank has announced to the Executive Committee of the Mine Workers’ Federation that he expects to receive next Thursday a definite undertaking that selling organisations will be established in all coalfields, with central co-ordination before next July. Captain Crookshank asked the executive to consider this undertaking very carefully, as signifying a substantial and permanent contribution to the structure of the industry, as well as to the wellbeing of the work people in the industry. The selling organisations, he said, were something practical, and held out the prospect of benefits to mine workers more tangible than any arbitration tribunal, which by itself would bring them nothing of value. The executive privately considered Captain Crookshank’s statement, and ,at midnight issued a reply stating that it regretted the attitude of the, Government in declining the miners’ offer, to submit their claims to the. Arbitration Court, and adding that it will therefore proceed with the ballot as originally suggested. A further meeting of the executive was held this morning to consider what other steps should be taken before putting the ballot into operation.