DISSATISFIED MINERS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16908, 6 December 1922, Page 5

DISSATISFIED MINERS.

DEPUTATION TO BONAR LAW. Ey Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Gable Association. LONDON, December 5. A full report of the miners’ deputation to Mr Bimar Law shows that Air Herbert Smith said:—"'The miners will nol continue to bear this" unjust agony. J went into the pit in 1872, and J say the miner's life was never worse than now.” Air Bonar Law replied that he could rot see a remedy, but he thought the miners’ leaders were too xiessimistic. There was an improvement in the iron and steel industries, which, -if continued. would have a big effect on tlio price of coal. The coal industry could not be subsidised. ”We are now,” said Air Bonar Law, ‘" paying in benefit £1.300.000 to the unemployed. It will take the Government all its time to balance the Budget.” Ho urged the minors to wait lor a couple of months to see whether the present improvement was going to mature. “If it does not.” he said. "* f am ready to reconsider the desirability of holding a mining inquiry.”