MINERS' BALLOT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 288, 30 August 1920, Page 5

MINERS' BALLOT

LARGE MAJORITY FOR A STRIKE ; i LEADERS SEEKING A WAY ; OUT TRADE UNION OPINION HARDENING . • AGAINST STOPPAGE ; (By Tolegraph-Preu Aisoolatlon-OawrigM : i Londom August 26. Though the first ballots have showed ■ | sweeping majorities in -favour of a coal ! strike, the crisis has entered on a mort : hopeful phase. Trade union opinion is • generally hardening against the strike. It is pointed out that if XI a week" ia > paid to the miners on strike pay, the , funds will lie exhausted in three wenkn. ' | _ Mr. Arthur Henderson urges that tha ' issuo between tho miners and the Got- '! ormuont is not roally nationalisation, but' • wages, which are affected by tho Incroas- 1 ed cost of living. This, he says, is a ! negotiable proposition.-Aus.-N.Z. Cabla Assn. ;

(Bee. August 2£), 5.5 p.m.) London, August 28. ' 1 •The ballot in South Wales resulted* ! 143,471 in favour of a strike, and 42,013 • against. Sir Kobert Homo will meet the • leaders of the Triple Alliance on Tuea- j day. Although tho miners' ballot will give than the requisite tiro-thirds ! majority for a strike, taere is an unexpectedly substantial vote against a strike, • particularly in Yorkshire. Nottingham, j and Northumberland. This fact is influencing tho leaders, who are anxious to' 1 find a way out, because other unions aw' 1 generally opposed to a coal strike, a* it ; would cause widespread unemployment. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable A6en, ■

LOCK-OUT IN ENGINEERING TRADES

WEEK'S NOTICE GIVEN BY EMPLOYERS. (Rec. August 28. 5.5 p.m.)

T , t . . London, August 28. ! ino iingineenne Employers' Federation is giving a, weeks notice -of a national i lock-out.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ; I A message published ,on Friday stated • that it was expected that a, lock-oat in ' the shipbuilding and engineering trades, 1 recently suggested as possible, would bo avertod, and that negotiations were in i progress.") ;