THE. FINAL NEGOTIATIONS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13826, 22 July 1915, Page 5

THE. FINAL NEGOTIATIONS.

(Received July 22, 1 a.m.) London, July 21. Mr Lloyd George on Monday night induced the miners' executive to formulate new proposals, and the members of the Cabinet laid them before the masters on Tuesday morning. The masters assembled in one room at a hotel, while the- miners' executive met in another-, and the Ministers moved (between the two until the executive promised to lecommend tiio terms to to-day's conference. Tho settlement* agrees to refer disputes to the Board of Trade. The main terms, are almost as in the federated area, including standard and minimum wages, but tho Welsh agreement includes surface workers. The executive further promised to recommend the men to work on the August tank holiday in order to help to overtake the shortage, but the strike penalties the strikers have incurred under the Munitions Act will be waived.