THE BRITISH STRIKE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10404, 18 July 1912, Page 5

THE BRITISH STRIKE.

THE MINIMUM WAGE

Halted Press Association —By Elea- ■ trie Telegraph.'—Copyright. Loudon, Jnly 17. .The strike committee rejected the' employers’ offer to fill vacancies as they occur from the ranks cf the strikers. The employers declined to discharge She non-unionists, who are working satisfactorily. Lord Devonnort’s terms are regarded ea an ultimatum to unconditionally surrender. A conference was held at Downing Street at midnight between the Premier. Lord Devonport and Messrs O’Grariy. Gosling and Orbeii. It was adjourned at 1 o’clock in th® morning, and will resume to-day. London, July 17. Mr Asquith, receiving a Miners’ Federation deputation complaining of the inadequacy of the minimum wage awards, emphasised that the difference between what was expected and what was obtained was so slight that it could ,probably be remediable by representation. The Act conferred a great boon. Received July 18, 10 a m. London, July 17 Ld®iS Devonport diet not attend the Conference, "but Mr J. O’Grady, M.P., and others merely saw the Premier no private business. The owners will not acquiesce in any third party’s intervention. There are 05,000 directly and indirectly idle through the dock strike and a million and a quarter pounds' have been lost In wages and £206.000 expended in strike pay while 25.000 families are destitute. Mr Churchill, in the Commons, denied the reported appointment of a Commission under Lord Plahor tp inquire regarding seamen’s pay. The police boarded a train conveying non-unionists to Tilomy and confiscated fifteen revolvers.