AMERICAN MINERS' DEMANDS

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15975, 18 November 1919, Page 5

AMERICAN MINERS' DEMANDS

DECLARED TO BE IMPOSSIBLE.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

Received November 18, 1 p.m. WASHINGTON, November 16,

The Secretary for Labour, Mr Wilson, addressing a conference to deal with the coal miners’ situation, declared that the Miners’ demands for a six-hour day aud a five-day week, with a sixty per cent, increase in wages, were impossible and added that the industrial life of the country could not continue if work were limited to thirty hours weekly.