WORK AND WAGES.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13792, 12 June 1915, Page 3

WORK AND WAGES.

SOUTH WALES MINERS

London, Juno 10

' Despite an increase of 17-J per cent, the South Wales miners persist in notices expiring at the end of June of theif intention to compel the coal owners to concede a new agreement embodying the chief items in the highly contentious pre-war programme. TVo meetings of the Conciliation Board were held, at which the workers' arguments were heard, and emphasised the impossibility of a mutual settlement. j The employers expressed a willingness to postpone till the end of the war a discussion of their own grievances, and offered meanwhile to continue the existing agreement. The mens' representatives declined this, and negotiations were broken off. The -executive of the South Wales Uliuers' Federation decided to summon a general conference of South Wales delegates, and also to ask the coal-own-, crs to agree to a joint audit of sale prices from July, 1914.