BRITISH MINING DIFFICULTIES

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9714, 26 March 1910, Page 5

BRITISH MINING DIFFICULTIES

By Elsotriu Telegraph.— United Press Assoc ation, Oopryight.

London, March 25. Mr Buxton received representatives of the coal miners and afterwards tbe delegates? of [the Miners’ Federation. Ho persuaded, both to agree to a further meeting of the Conciliation Board at Cardiff on Saturday. The Times states that sympathies with tbs Miners’ Federation in Britain arc already estranged to a not an considerable degree by the Welsh miners’ opposition to the double shift system, which is already in operation in Northumberland and Durham. It is pos ibiQ the Federation will apply pressure to prevor-t a strike. London. Msroh 24, Delegatee representing 15,000 Welsh miners demanded that the Miners Federation oi Britain call a general strike. Tbs only possibility of averting a etriko on April Ist is the intervention of the Board of Trade reptesent&tii ves* The men are to meet Mr Buxton