WELSH COAL TROUBLE.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13412, 9 May 1912, Page 5

WELSH COAL TROUBLE.

RISE IN WAGES GRANTED

MEN STILL DISSATISFIED

(Received May 9, 0.30 a.m.)

London, May 8

Lord St Aldwyn's casting voto'on the South Wales Colliery Board decided that colliery labourers should receive from 4s 2d to 4s 9d per day, representing an advance of 3d. The men were so dissatisfied at not securing 5s per day that they suspended negotiations, and called a conference of the Welsh Miners' Federation for Saturday.

Lord St Aldwyn's vote implies that the Conciliation Board agreement will continue to control the South Wales coal trade. ,

• A circular from the members of the Northumberland Miners' Association states that during 1\ years the expenditure was £150,000 above the income, and it was impossible to pay the present benefits.