THE COAL DEADLOCK.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 June 1926, Page 13

THE COAL DEADLOCK.

COSTS MUST COME DOWN. DISASTER IMPENDING. PREMIER'S PLAIN TALK. LESS PAY OR LONGER SHIFT FACTS MUST BE FACED. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received June 11, 7.50 p.m. London, June 10. In the House of Commons, in reply to questions, the Prime Minister (Mr. Stanley Baldwin) said he regretted he "was unable to dissent from the conclusion arrived at in the Coal Commission’s report that it will need years to bring into effect all the measures of reorganisation of the industry which are suggested in that report, while in the meantime the present hard economic conditions had to be faced, namely, that impending disaster could only be averted by an immediate reduction of working costs by file miners working for lower wages or for longer hours. Mr. Baldwin added that be had heard of no alternative proposals meeting the immediate situation, except that the taxpayer should resume the burden of maintaining the coal industry. COAL FROM ANTWERP, LANDED AT THE CLYDE. Received June 11, 5.5 p.m. London, June 10. As the result of the coal stoppage coal is being discharged on the Clyde for the first time in five years by two vessels from Antwerp, while four others are en route to the Clyde wiih 1000 tens each. The trade unions concerned have decided to handle the coal, which is for bunkers. MONEY FROM RUSSIA ORIGIN NOT ESTABLISHED. London, June 10. In the House of Commons, Sir W. Joynson-Hicks said the Foreign Office was satisfied that the Russian Government sent money to Britain for the purposes of the general strike. Mr. McDonald pointed out that the strike leaders had refused that money Sir W. Joynson-Hicka continued that money had been sent to the Miners’ Federation by some very closely correlated bodies in Russia comprising the Soviet Government, the Third International and other organisations, though he 'had not yet established that the Soviet Government itself had directly sent money’. HELP FOR THE MINERS. BRITISH UNION'S GIFT. Received June 12, 12.45 a.m. London, June 11. The general council of the Trade Union Congress has forwarded £lO,OOO to the miners’ strike fund.