MINERS IGNORE INQUIRY
DEADLOCK CONTINUES “NEVER BLACKER." LONDON. July 19. The coal deadlock continues. The Government inquiry will be resumed on Monday, but the miners will not be represented. Mr Cook is spending the week-end preparing the miners’ case for a special meeting of the Trades Union Congress at London on Friday. While it is lagreed that the industrial [alliance cannot be created in time to help the miners next month, plans are | being prepared by which tho Unions can take la ballot of members quickly ion the question of supporting the min ;ers by embargoes against handling coal, fighting fund, etc. Mr J. H. Thomas. Railway Union iofficial, speaking at Bakewell. Derby l shire, on Saturday, said: “Things never looked blacker. You cannot exI pect to find contentment when workmen are denied a living wage." I Sir L. Worthington Evans, speaking tit Dunmow, said: “The difficulty of the position is that both the men and tho employers arc in the right. What is wrong is the world price of coal.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19363, 21 July 1925, Page 11
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