Industrial

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 87, 17 August 1923, Page 6

Industrial

AMERICAN COAL DISPUTE. ■ £ v": •• j —■ ■.' *’ NEGOTIATIONS RESUMED. Press Assa.iation—Copyright. Aus>l tralian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received JblO a.m.) \ New York, August 16. . The coal miners - ana, ’ "operators are cbdferrlng at 1 the Government’s inyitailbn to compose tixelr minor y£h'ich '* had caused a cessation of the general wage negotiations. Tfies© will now be re'.‘sumed. - . v BAD AGREEMENTS. WORD TO THE WORKERS. , r< (Received 10.55 a.m.) < _ , . ~ London, August 16. ] Mr J. R. dynes, in’ his presidential address at a, meeting of the National Federation of General Workers, said workmen must not be' expected to submit to the doctrine . that the standard remuneration > must remain at a low cost of living, hut the dockers and other grades of labour must find a wa£ to resist wage reduction without having to -revolt against* the agreements which they had sanctioned. 1 A bargain when made, even though it turned out had, must be kept. The workmen would’ be the first to Insist upon that principle for the employ- ■ frs. . ' r ’ x