LABOUR TROUBLES.
THE COAL INDUBTRY. STRIKE CALLED FOR MAY 22. BREAKDOWN OF NEGOTIATIONS. United rros* Assn. —Elea. Tel. Copyright LONDON, May i. The special delegate conference of the Mine Workers’ Federation has called a national coal strike for May 22 following the breakdown of negotiations.
In connection with the negoliations arising out of the dispute last November at the Ilarworth colliery and in pursuance of the authority recently given by an overwhelming majority in a ballot of the coalfields to use strike action to enforce the claim for recognition of the Mine Workers’ Federation by the Nottinghamshire owners, the federation decided to hand in notices in all coal-fields to oease work.
Mines Department officials were in conference for several hours with representatives of the Owner’s Federation and the rival Nottinghamshire union, which alone has been recognised by the owners since 1926, but no settlement was reached in time to prevent the decision of the miners’ delegate conference to tender notices.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20184, 3 May 1937, Page 7
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