MINING DISPUTE
SITUATION BECOMING GRAVE. ANXIOUS CONSULTATIONS. (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, December 19. The wages dispute in the coal-min-ing industry was the subject of anxious consultations throughout yesterday, in the course of which the Minister of Mines (Captain H. Crookshank) had interviews in the morning and evening with the executive of the Miners’ Federation. Captain Crookshank announced in the House of Commons that the Government had refused the request of the Mine-Workers’ Federation that it should augment the men’s wages out of the public funds. Shortly before midnight, after a long meeting of the federation,_ the president (Mr Joseph Jones) said the situation was exceedingly grave. The miners’ delegates have decided to give notice, to become effective on all fields on January 27, if wage proposals satisfactory to the miners are not obtained in the meantime.
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Southland Times, Issue 22770, 21 December 1935, Page 7
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139MINING DISPUTE Southland Times, Issue 22770, 21 December 1935, Page 7
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