MINERS TIRE OF STRIKE

Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1926, Page 9

MINERS TIRE OF STRIKE

LOCAL TERMS ACCEPTABLE EMBARGO ON FOREIGN COAL OTHER UNIONS’ REFUSAL By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 3, 7.30 p.m. London, Nov. 2. The Daily Express states that at the Trades Union meeting held at the Miners’ headquarters to discuss the whole mining situation, unfavourable reports were presented from all the coal fields, where the men are ready to accept local terms for an immediate resumption of work. The meeting decided to summon a conference of the miners national delegates for Thursday, in the hope that it will authorise the Trades Union Congress to secure a settlement, including a Government guarantee of tire framework of a national agreement in which its general principles would be outlined, the minimum wage defined and the division of profits to wages fixed. Mr. Herbert Smith (President of the Miners’ Federation) angrily attacked the leadera of the other unions for not aiding the miners. The Daily Mail states that Railway and other transport Unions unanimously refused the miners’ application for an embargo to be placed upon foreign coal. The Seamen’s Union ballot resulted in 908 votes in favour and 10,060 against an embargo on foreign coal. “As for strikers, I do not believe there will be any for the next five years,” declared Mr. Havelock Wilson in addressing the Baltic Exchange, “The ordinary workman in England has no use fjpr red propaganda. During the war, it was a grand sight to see the young men going out whistling Tipperary, and I hope the breed has not quite succumbed to the Labourites,’' said Mr. Wilson. Received Nov. 4, 1.15 a.m. London, Nov. 3. Thousands of Rhondda Valley strikers stoned the police, who were escorting returned miners to their homes. The police charged with batons, but reinforcements were necessary before the assailants were dispersed, a number of them being arrested.