MINERS' STRIKE.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17155, 26 May 1921, Page 7

MINERS' STRIKE.

THE FIRST BREAK-AWAY.

BTOTOTJS COST TO UNIONS. (By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) (Beutor's Telegrams.) (Received Mav 25th, 8.10 p.m.) LONDON, May 24. The first English miners to resume work are six hundred at the Madeley Wood collieries in Shropshire, who have accepted a temporary wages agreement pending a general settlement. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received May 25th, 7.45 n.m.) LON"DON, Ml:y 34, ,4*?f xorkshire Miners' Association which had funds amounting to £900,000 two years ago. has paid out £400,000 in strike pay, m addition to £1,000,000 for food coupons, and is now in debt to the extent of £300,000 Mr Frank Hall, of the Derbyshire Miners' Association, states that the strike has cost his Association £250,000, this being fifteen years' savings. COST OP DEFENCE FORCES. (Received May 25th. 10.10 t>.m.) _ . LONDON, May 24. In the House of Commons, Sir Robert Home, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said the cost of mobilisation of the reserves and the Defence Force in con nexion with the 'strike, was £4,880,000 to date.

PROSPECTS OF SETTIJBMENT. (Received May 25th, 12.10 a.m.S • LONDON, May 25. - The'newspapers are generally optimistic regarding the prospects of a coal strike conference. Good headway is being made in unofficial conversations-, but the details are highly complex and there are many interests, to consider before a lasting scheme can be fixed upon.