REFERRED TO DISTRICTS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume LVIII, Issue 100, 2 October 1926, Page 5

REFERRED TO DISTRICTS

GOVERNMENT’S TERMS TO STRIKERS. DISGRUNTLED DELEGATES. Press Association-Copyright, Australian and N Z. Cable Association. LONDON, September 30. Delegates of the Miners’ Federation duly decided to refer the Government's proposals to the various districts and the delegates returned to their districts in a chastened and disgruntled mood. Nothing definite, however, is likely to be done for a week except to hold district meetings at which the. miners will express their views on the situation by moans of a show of hands. The Rhondda Valley local coal miners executive has informed the management of the Ocean Colliery (which employs 11,000 men’) that it no longer opposes the men’s return to work. It is expected that sixty per cent, will resume work immediately. Messrs A. J. Cook and Herbert Smith attended a meeting of the International Miners’ Federation at which it was reported that British miners had received grants totalling £1,261,000 from abroad nn to September ,2i7i and i further America, New Zealand and elsewhere. It is understood that the prospects of further substantial support are very slender. The German delegates argued ngaintat any ban on coal exports, and the meeting adjourned. • . A hoom in coal shares has set m, and Cardiff stock exchange specula tors who foresaw the termination of +v> e strike, are making small fortunes. Simultaneously there is a wild _ rus . l to buy coal at the pitheads, and prices are soaring.