IMPORTANT CONFERENCE.
A SATISFACTO,B¥ STATEMENT.
LONDON March 28
At a conference betw33i: the executive of the Miners' F^ieratiori and the Government, Mr Bonar Law, Js the course of it long "cencPiatory Statement dealing with the miners' propped modifieatiOhs df Mr Justice Sank«y's report, said that the Governmeht was unable to go beyond Mf Justice Sankey's chief recommendations. Mr Bonar Law pnipliasised the \*te?l behefi's ar^ruinn: to miners' if the report Waft Meeepted and a strike averted/ xnJ from the anticipated fall :n the cost >jf living before the end of tlie year. TVforeover. the commission tfoHld eontiftue to sit and isstie interiin reports fl" reenrds the betterment of mining con^ ditions.
Mr Smillie, replying, .-ndertook t* fully submit the position to "the miners' conference, and e*ftfe>'se£ the opinion Hint th«) contirmVitiott of tile commission had probably opened u# a new era, which would possibly do mo-re to bring peace and prosperity to tha mining industry than anything hitherto.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17535, 31 March 1919, Page 2
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158IMPORTANT CONFERENCE. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17535, 31 March 1919, Page 2
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