STRIKE AVERTED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18922, 25 January 1936, Page 5

STRIKE AVERTED

BRITISH GOAL MINERS OWNERS* TERMS ACCEPTED GESTURE OF LOYALTY FURTHER NEGOTIATIONS (British Official Wireless.) Reed. noon. RUGBY, Jan. 24. The national delegate conference of the Mine Workers' Federation met to-day to hear the report of the executive on the amended offer of the owners. After a resolution of condolence with the Royal Family had been honoured in silence, the delegates voted on the recommendation, accepting) the owners' terms.

In making the recommendation, the executive committee strongly was influenced by the desirability of avoiding an industrial disturbance in the present circumstances of the nation, and by the keenest possible desire to prevent loss and injury to the public who had so 'loyally supported the miners' claim.

The recommendation was accepted on a card vote by 360,000 votes t0'112,000, with ,34,000 abstaining. A coal strike was averted with the workers' decision to accept the leaders' advice and agree to the owners' offer of Is a day increase. The men had demanded 2s. A large majority, however, carried a resolution that while they considered that the owners' offer was unsatisfactory, not affording the miners the standard of living to which they are entitled, in view of the owners' undertaking that a national joint consultative committee would be created to discuss wages and other matters, the owners' offer be accepted as an instalment towards a further improvement which selling schemes should make possible.