STRIKE AVERTED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20326, 27 January 1936, Page 12

STRIKE AVERTED

MINING AGREEMENT IN BRITAIN United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received January 26, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, January 24. A coal strike was averted w r ith the mine workers’ decision to accept the leaders’ advice and agree to the owners’ offer of a shilling a day increase. The men demanded 2/-. A large majority, however, carried, a resolution that while they considered the owners’ offer unsatisfactory, not affording the miners the standard of living to which they were entitled, in view of the owners’ undertaking that a national joint-consultative committee would be created to discuss wages and other matters, the owners’ offer be accepted as an instalment towards a further Improvement which selling schemes should make possible. In making the recommendation, the Executive Committee was strongly influenced by the desirability of avoiding an industrial disturbance in the present circumstances of the nation and by the keenest possible desire to prevent loss and injury to the public who so loyally supported the miners’ claim. The recommendation was accepted on a vote of 360,000 votes to 112,000, with 34,000 abstaining.