BRITISH LABOR TROUBLES
SHIPBUILDING LOCKOUT
MINERS REJECff OWNERS' PRO
POSALS.
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(Router's Telegram.l (Received, April 12, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON. April 11
The shipbuilding employers announce that the lockout will be effective tonight.
It is officially slated thai the miners' ballot resulted in the rejection of the owners' wane proposals by 338,000 to 322,000. No immediate crisis is anticipated as the result of the ballot. The strike question is irksome, but not involved. The next move will probably be in the direction of a Court of Inquiry.
NEW MINERS.' SECRETARY
(Renter's Telegram.) (Received April 12, 11 a.m.) LONDON. April 11
A. J. Cook, miners' agent in Rhondda Valley, has been elected secretary of the Miners' Federation. He formerly was a Raptist preacher and disciple of Karl Marx. He has been imprisoned twice for activities in connection with the industrial movement. He said it was difficult to avert a stoppage on the coalfields unless the miners' demand for a living wage .vas conceded. He inter preted his appointment to mean that the miners desired a militant, aggressive policy. He believed in one big union, and was convinced of the necessity of a real live miners' international.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16406, 12 April 1924, Page 7
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