NO STRIKE PAY.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13824, 20 July 1915, Page 5

NO STRIKE PAY.

AN UNPLE/iSANT SURPRISE,

THE MEN'S BELIEFS.

(Received July 20, 0.20 a.m.)

London, July 19

Tho majority of the miners in conversation hotly resent the imputation that they art, unpatriotic, pointing out the number of miners who have enlisted. Most of -the leaders have sons in the army, the majority holding commissions. There was an unpleasant shock owing to the announcement that tliero would be no strike pay."" The South Wales war chest' contains only a week's strike pay, and there is no likelihood of the strikers receiving assistance from th© Miners'. Federation or other trade unions. Most of the men are still convinced that in this hour of national crisis they will have the country at their mercy. There is' a widespread impression in South Wales thai the Government will concede- all the men's terms except the stipulation for a three years' agreement. The matters in dispoto will he thon referred to a tribunal under the Munitions .Act, which will decide regaiding the marginal difference's be : tiween Mr Rtmciinan's awards and the men's full demands. The miners would-, then have a full right to latify-or reject the new agreement when arranged. Mr lorn. Richards, M.P.,' arid Mr Vernon Hartshorn state tJ-at th« 3 ir.on believe- the masters played upon their patriotism in order to induce them to

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accept unwelcome terms. They believe that the Government has been pulled by the employers, who are now relying Upon the Government to force* the men' into the pits.