COAL OUTLOOK.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1920, Page 5

COAL OUTLOOK.

THE SITUATION jfl NO SETTLEMENT IN (By Wire.—Parliamentary Wellington, Lut KpflH The coal situation is looking IhhSi The Prime Minister met ytjaH sentatives of the mifierr owners to-day, but the understood, did sot reach factory conclusion. .Thesettlenijnj||H the dispute at Huntly i* adt able, but the Government has nfl| (ear that as on other settlement o! one dtapnte the signal for the opening dispute. The miners seem to unlimited stock of grievances,they are not prepared to in piece-meal fashion, - According to a telegram West Coast, Mr. P. C. Webb of the State Miners' Union), that the mine-owners and tb» 4mSl|H ment are aware of the reason ritation strike now in progreM State mine. This assertion rect as far as the Government cerned. Mr. Massey, who is for Miiieg, has received no tion from the miners, and aware officially or unofficially cause of the new trouble. He his own conclusions on ports, as other people are the miners have not informed'iSnsH their grievance. , > It is reported here thatone of mauds behind the strike' at tbe rnirfe is'the restoration of to Mr. Webb, who was deprived of civil rights for Jib is(j3|fl to enter the Expeditionary Force.,-fIBB ing the war, Mr. Webb, then Parliament, was a single man'cv^q^H NATIONAL DISPUTES COMMli*|H SMALL MATTERS CONSIOBBffI^M By Telegraph.—Press Wellington, Lost KfawjH A meetinf of the National Dmu|H Committee, comprising members Mine Owners' Association ujL'9 Miners' Federation, was held day, but the Huntly trouble discussed. The Committee several. points that have the Denniston and Stockton garding the interpretation «f clause in the national The bulk of the points in disjrtit|>\WV|9 settled satisfactorily. ~