COAL MINERS' DISPUTE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20101, 3 December 1930, Page 11

COAL MINERS' DISPUTE.

THE STOPPAGE IN SCOTLAND. A SETTLEMENT HOPED FOR. WORK PROCEEDING ELSEWHERE (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) (Received Dcrember 2nd. 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, December 1. In the English and Welsh coalfields, work proceeded as usual to-day. In Scotland there wns a stoppage in most, though not nil districts, but hopes are eiitertuino'l that the situation will be relieved. As a result of a conference of the Scottish Coal Trade Conciliation Hoard, which will meet at Glasgow at noon at the request of the National Union of Scottish Mine Workers The utmost confidence is expressed that a temporary, if not final, agreement will be reached, and the daiiger of a general stoppage in Scotland averted.

Saturday's decision of the South iVulcs Miners' Federation ill accepting a district agreement for the spreadovor ol working hours despite the 4,111 t.argo placed on sucii an agreement ov Llie .National Miners I'ederation in I.ondon the previous day, has apparently !iad a ma rked effect upon the situation. It is generally anticipated tliat when the National Federation meets ay.iin 011 Thursday, it will reverse Friday's decision and sanction (lie spread-over in those districts u here the miners desire it.

The secretary of the Federation, Mr A. .) Cook, ycslerd.iv said: "It is for each district' to consider the position in relation to its own needs, namely, to protect wages and standards." The president of the National Cll ion <ll Scottish Mine Workers expressed .lie opinion this morning tliat negotiations at to-day's Glasgow meeting in reference to the stoppage of work in ihe Scottish coalfields world take the form that it is almost definite that a settlement ol a temporary character at least world result. Mr F. Shinwtll. Secretary for .Mines, stated in the Kouse of Commons that it\ Filmland and Wales all pits were workitia to-day. and in S"otiruid 18 per cent, of the men. When the Scottish Coal Hoard met at Glasgow to-dav. the men's officials said rhnt an n'Toenient was almost certan. The Hoard adjourned without ren liin': 11 decision hut hopes are widelv held that the Scottish miners who struck to-day will return to work on a day-to-day basis

STOPPAGES IN OTHER

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SHORT STRIKE ANTICIPATED. (UNITE D PRE 33 ASSOCIATION —BY ELECTHIC TELFOII.U'H COPYRIGHT.! (Received December 2nd, 5-5 p.in.) LONDON. December 1. Three collieries, one working only half force, was the extent of coalmining in Fifeshire to-day. Communists persuaded -500 of the 1500 employees at Lewis Marthyr mine, Trehafod, not to descend the shaft. Sis hundred struck at Tarani colliery, Swansea Valley, as n protest against the terms of the South Wales Miners' Federation settlement, which most districts have accepted. The strike is expected to cease totnori ow

All the North Wales pits have resumed. Three thousand men nt E;ismgton collier\ nre idle, owing to a hitch over the new agreement. An early settlement is expected. Mr Shinwell conferred with representatives of the employers and the employees in order to explore plans for a settlement, permanent in South Wales, am] temporary in Scotland, concerning which he declares himself to be optimistic.