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OWNERS ADAMANT. CABINET MAY INTERVENE. STATEMENT BY MR A. J. COO^ (Received April 23, 11.30 a.m.) / LONDON, April 22. The Coal Conference lasted 75 minutes, and no further meeting was fixed. The Miners' Executive will meet this afternoon to place the situation before the Industrial Committee of the Trade Unions’ Congress. It is expected the Government will intervene almost immediately.
Mr A. J. Cook, in a statement, said: “We met the coal owners at their request, Mr Evan Williams, president of the Mining Association, presiding. They definitely refused to discuss any minimum percentage applicable to tha coalfields nationally, and declared that wages must be based on the economic capacity of the district affected. They refused to disclose the rates, .wages and conditions to bo applied to the districts, but stated the subsistence wage would be revised and reduced, and announced their intention of posting at the pithead the proposals upon which the men could work from May 1.”
Mr Cook added that that meant a complete deadlock. He described the employers as adamant as at the last meeting.
It is announced that notices intimating the new rates of wages will be posted at the pitheads on various dates, commencing tomorrow.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16780, 23 April 1926, Page 5
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