BRITISH COAL STRIKE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 206, 26 May 1921, Page 5

BRITISH COAL STRIKE

NUMBER OF MINERS RESUME WORK TEMPORARY AGREEMENT ACCEPTED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. May 25, 8.10 p.m.) London, May 24. The first English miners to resume work are six hundred at tho Madeley Wood Collieries, Shropshire, who have accepted a temporary wages agreement pending a general settlement. —Reuter. rospects’of’conference NEWSPAPERS OPTIMISTIC. (Rec. May 26, 0.10 a.m.) London, May 25. The newspapers generally are optimistic regarding the prospects of the coal conference. Good headway has been made in unofficial conversation, but the details are highly complex, and there are many interests to consider before a lasting scheme can be fixed upon.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. MINERS’ ASSOCIATIONS’ FUNDS USED UP IN STRIKE PAY. (Rec. May 25, 7.35 p.m.) London, May 24. The Yorkshire Miners' Association, which had funds amounting to two years ago, has paid A'400,000 in strike pay, in addition to a million for food coupons, and is now in debt to tho extent of .£300,000. Mr. Frank Hall, of the Derbyshire Miners’ Association, states that the strike has cost the association a quarter of a million, being fifteen years’ savings.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. COST OF MOBILISATION NEARLY FIVE MILLIONS TO DATE. (Rec. May 25, 10.10 p.m.) London, May 24. Tn the House of Commons Sir Robert Horne stated that the cost of mobilisation of the reserves and defence force in connection with the strike was .£4,880,000 to date.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. DOCKERS REFUSE TO WORKPAPAROA (Rec. May 25, 11.25 p.m.) London, May 25. The dockers, owing to the earlier employment of volunteers to coal the Paparoa. bound for New Zealand, refused to work the vessel’s cargo or handle the luggage.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. •