SETTLEMENT ACCEPTED TN DERBYSHIRE.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 151034, 28 July 1919, Page 5

SETTLEMENT ACCEPTED TN DERBYSHIRE.

CAUSE OF THE YORKSHIRE CRISIS'.

and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received July 27, 1.5 p.m.) ™ p> , ~ London, July 26. /."^Derbyshire mine?s council accepted the piece rate settlement Ihe following i 3 the cause of the. Yorkshire crisis: The Sankey Commission calculated that the reduced hours *ould decrease the output ten per cent Ihe Government thereupon decided to add ten per cent, to the piece rates in order to maintain the miners' earnings but the miners claimed that as some mmes-vere already working seven hours a day the allowance should be more than ten per cent.

The Coal Controller and the Miners' Federation^were discussing the mfc when the Yorkshire miners struck foi fourteen per cent, though the Control ler in the meantime fixed the increase at twelve and a half per cent If the men s demand were conceded it would necessitate making an increase in the price of coal above six shilling