BRITAIN’S COAL CRISIS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 8 October 1926, Page 9

BRITAIN’S COAL CRISIS.

The Primate Intervenes. AN OUTSPOKEN APPEAL. By Cable —Press Association —Copyrisb* Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received October 7, 7.35 p.m.) LONDON, October 6. “Are we simply to form a ring and stand helplessly around, hoping thin, the combatants will come to terms, or have all of us, as citizens of the country of which coal is the key industry, an inevitable share in the responsibility,” asked the Archbishop of Canterbury, in an address to the Diocesan Conference. . “Let, no man say without challenge," added tho Archbishop, “that industrial problems can be safely left to experts, and tho play of economic forces. Those who feel keenly that moral principles aro involved in such disputes, have a keen watch to keep, and relevant opinion to express.” , This .is tho first occasion that the Archbishop of Canterbury has intervened since the general strike.

PRIME MINISTER’S ULTIMATUM. THREATS TO WITHDRAW ■ PROPOSALS. By C»ble —Press Association —CopyrlgM. Australian ■ and N.Z. , Cabls Association. (Received October 7, 7.35 p.m.) LONDON, October 6. Apropos of to-morrow’s Miners’ Delegate Conference, which will receive tho results of district voting upon the Government’s peace proposals, Mr Baldwin has written to Mr Cook, pointing out that tho Government has already extended the time limit for the acceptance of the proposals, and further extension is not permissible. Consequently, ■ to-morrow’s conference must accept or reject the proposals. If rojeoted, the offer must be regarded as withdrawn.

PRIMATE'S INTERVENTION. „ WELCOMED BY MINERS. 2y Cab's —Praia Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cabla Association (Received October 7, 8.25 p.m.) LONDON, October 7. Tho secretary of the Miners’ Federation (Mr A. J. Cook) says that he welcomes the primate’s utterance, and declared that negotiated peace is better in the country’s interest, than terms enforced by coercion and starvation.”

REASON FOR CABINET’S INTERVENTION. WHERE DOES MR BALDWIN STAND? By Cable—Press Association —Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable /.ssocl^tlea (Received October 7, 8.25 p.m.) LONDON, October 6. Mr Baldwin’s ultimatum is connected with the delegate conference of miners, to-morrow and the Unionist Conference at Scarborough, which Mi* Baldwin is addressing in the evening. Mr Baldwin is aware of the growing Unionist disfavour of the Government’s intervention in industrial disputes, and wants to know where he stands with the miners. Tho general expectation is that tomorrow’s Miners’ Conference will be inconclusive, which will mean the total withdrawal of the Government’s offer, and the gradual dribbling back of the men to work under tho best settlements possible. Tho Executive, realising the hopelessness of the struggle, may suggest a ballot of tho whole coal fields, and meanwhile ask the Government to extend tho offor for a fortnight longer.

HELP FOR STRIKERS. THANKS TENDERED TO AMERICA. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, October 6. A Detroit message states that thanking the American Federation of Labour Convention for contribution to tho British striker's, Mr Georg© Hicks of tho British Trade Union Council Executive, said to-day: “Nobody with a spark of intelligence would desire a repetition of the terrible industrial warfare a general strike involves, but we cannot escape the stern and awful realities. We are compelled to make plans upon the’conscious realisation of actualities. Jn Britain to-day both sides are preparing for the coming struggle. It would appear that a genera] strike more intense and formidable in character than the one recently experienced, is inevitable.”