MINERS' STRIKE.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17128, 25 April 1921, Page 7

MINERS' STRIKE.

JOINT CONFERENCE MEETS. THE OWNERS* PROPOSALS. (By Cable—Press Association—Copyright-) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received April 24th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 22. The joint conference of representatives of the Government, owners, and miners sat for an hour and a halfj and adjourned till Monday to permit the owners to submit fuller details of their proposals. The Miners' Conference passed a resolution of confidence in Mr Frank Hodges, and also emphatically protested against the railwaymen's and transport workers' official explanation, which attributed their defection to the refusal of the miners to meet the owners. The real cause of the unjustifiable withdrawal could only be looked for in the character and structure of the Triple Alliance itself. The Glasgow dockers refuse to handle coal from Home and foreign ports. Five vessels with coal for the Scottish railways are held up. The conference unanimously carried Mr E. Bevins's resolution instructing European and American transport workers and railwaymen to refuse to handle coal likely to be sent to Britain during the strike. A LOAN POR STRIKE PAY. (Received April 24th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 23. The Yorkshire Miners' Association paid out to its members £BO,OOO in strike pay, having borrowed £50.000. from the Amalgamated Society of Engineers. KING'S COAL POR POOR. (Received April 24th. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 23. The King despatched fifty tons of coal from the Buckingham Palace cellars for distribution amongst London's poor. BLOCKING COAL SUPPLIES. TRANSPORT WORKERS' DECISION. (Received April 24th, 11.6 p.m.) LONDON, April 24. ■ The executive of the Transport Workers' Federation adopted a resolution calling on members to refuse to bunker any ship taking less than a normal quantity of : bunker coal, in order to reach Continental, American, or colonial coaling ports. They also declared that labour must not be provided for the discharge of Continental or American coal, as this would do strike-breaking. The Federation will communicate with the International Transport Workers' Conference at Geneva, asking for its co-operation in refusing to transport coal to Britain for strike-breaking purposes.