HOUR OF DECISION

Wairarapa Age, 8 October 1926, Page 5

HOUR OF DECISION

& GOVERNMENTS OFFER TO MINERS. PREMIER'S ULTIMATUM. ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY INTERVENES. (Received Thursday, 7.35 p.m.) LONDON, October 6. Apropos of tomorrow's Miners’ Delegate Conference, which will receive the results of the district voting upon the Government’s peace proposals. Mr. Baldwin has written to Mr. Cook out that the Government has already extended the time limit for the acceptance of these proposals and that a fur- > ther extension is not permissible. Consequently to-morrow’s conference must accept or reject the proposals. If the proposals are rejected the offer must be regarded as withdrawn. “Are we simply to form a ring and stand helplessly around, hoping that 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 that industrial problems can •afoly be left to experts and the play of economic forces. Those who feel keenly that moral principles are involved in such disputes have a keen watch to keep, and a relevant opinion to express. ’ ’ This is the first occasion on which the Archbishop of Canterbury has intervened since the General Strike.—(A. and N.Z.)