BRITISH MINERS.
STRIKE POSTPONED FOR A WEEK CONFERENCE WITH PREMIER WAGES BASED ON OUTPUT (By Telegraph-Press AEsociation-Oopyrlgii (Rec. September 26, 5.5 p.m.) London, September 21. The miners have decided to postpone handing in their Btriko notices for a week. The decision wo? tho outcome of a suggestion by Mr. J. Thomas, the railwaymen's lender, that the Miners' Executive should again meet Mr. Lloyd George, with a view to the possibility of averting the striko. Subsequently, Mr. Smillie and other leaders mot Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Bonar Law, the President of the Board of Trade (Sir Eobert Some), and the Coal Controller. After Mr. Smillie had announced that, In view of the Government's inability to concede an immedi-
ate increase in wages,' the mincra could not suspend their notices or prevent a strike, Mr. Lloyd George pointed out that there were only twenty-four hours before tho plunge over the precipice. He asked that the notices be suspended for a week, to permit of a meeting with the owners. He was assured that it would not take two days to discover a basis upon which wages could bo made dependent upon output, and that -within a month the miners would secure an appreciable incrcaso in wages. At a lator meeting tho Miners' Exccutivo agreed to recommend the miners' delegates to suspend their notices for a week, in order to meet the coal-owners, to discuss Mr. Lloyd George's plan for payment according to output.—Keuter. outpuFand" wages AN AMICABLE CONFERENCE. (Eec. September 26, 11.5 p.m.) London, September 25, Coal owners and miners' delegates conferred amicably for two hours and a half regarding output and wages. The conference adjourned until Monday. Th« miners will endeavour to get the datum line output fixed low enough to give an immediate increase of wages, It is point, ed out that the output would be materially increased if all miners would work the full number of shifts instead of at. tending football matches and other sports during working hours.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. TRUCE GREETED WITH JOY BELLS (Reo. September 26, 11.55 p.m.) London, September 26. The coal truce was greeted with the raging of joy bells and miners' singing in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. There were manifestations of relief and hope on the other coalfields.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. " TRANSPORTERS" RESTIVE (Reo. September 27, 0.45 a.m.) London, September 26. The executive of the Transporters' Federation is consulting affiliated unions with a view to acquiring powers equal to those of the two other sections of the Triple Alliance to deal with the present crisis. The executive's circular adds: "We are assured by the miners' leaders that the orisis i is in nowise oyer and that positive action of a strike character may face us in the next few days."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 1, 27 September 1920, Page 5
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