THREATENED COAL STRIKE.
OFFER BY MINE-OWNERS.
PRECAUTIONS TAKEN BY CONSUMERS. MR. ASQUITH INTERVENES. Bγ rcleeraph-rresi Assodatton-Oopyriehl London, February 20. The Prime Minister lias invited tlio owners and miners' representatives to meet him and some of his colleagues at tho Foreign Oilico separately on Thursday to consider means to avert the. strike. The English mine-owners, in the negotiations before tho Coal Conciliation Board, submitted conditions on which they were propared to accept a minimum wage. The miners rejected tho proposal, and the conference broke up. Merchants, householders, railways, and Government, depots havo been storing coal heavily during the past month. Many householders are using their bathrooms to keep the coal in. Consumers at Liverpool are panicstricken, and are inundating tho coal merchants. The railways arc cutting down Bupplies for the waiting-rooms and offices to onethird. Mr. Straker, secretary of the Northumberland Miners' Union, states that ho is so coniideut as to the justice of tho men's case that he is willing to allow Sir Q. R. Askwith to act as umpire Tho men, ho adds, are not itching to strike. Hundreds .of largo employers have given provisional notices. Fifteen thousand glasstnakers in Lancashire, and many ironworkers and engineers are affected.
MINIMUM WAGE OFFERED. A NEWSPAPER SUGGESTION. (Rec. February 21, 10.10 p.m.)' London, February 21. The English coal-owners' scheme proposes a minimum wage of 7s. 3}d. per day for abnormal places, and Cs. 3Jd. in other places. It is understood that tho miners are averse to more than sixpence difference between tho two rates. The "Daily Chronicle" states that one suggested settlement is that the minimum wage be given three mouths trial, the State bearing any extra cost to the coal-owners.
COAL FOR THE NAVY. ORDER SENT TO AMERICA. ' (Rec. February 21, 11.25 p.m.) London, February 21. The Admiralty has ordered 10,000 tons of American steam coal for Gibraltar.'
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1370, 22 February 1912, Page 5
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307THREATENED COAL STRIKE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1370, 22 February 1912, Page 5
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