BRITISH COAL STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1926, Page 13

BRITISH COAL STRIKE.

NEGOTIATIONS TO RE-OPEN. GOVERNMENT AID SOUGHT. NO DISTRICT AGREEMENTS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received. Sept. 3, 7.50 p.m. London, Sept. 3. From all-day general and sectional discussions, the miners’ executive emerged late yesterday afternoon with an important majority decision to recommend the conference of delegates to grant the executive plenary powers to re-open negotiations for a settlement. There appeared to be an opinion among the majority that the trouble should be quickly ended. Later in the evening the conference, by a majority of 332,000 votes, empowered the executive to prepare recommendations as a basis for negotiations and empowered the executive to negotiate for a national settlement. The executive will first approach the Government. The Daily Herald stresses the importance of the phraseology of the miners’ resolution. It says: “No settlement not really national will be countenanced. That is the bedrock principle which the owners from the first have been determined to destroy. They want district agreements. They want to break up the Miners’ Federation, which is not going to be broken up.”