WEARY OF STRIKE
MINERS SEEK SETTLEMENT
LEADERS EMPOWERED TO ACT
BUT AGBEEMENT MUST BE
NATIONAL.
(United Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, 3rd September. From all-day fjeneral and sectional discussions, the Miners' Federation Executive emerged lato yesterday afternoon with an Important majority decision to recommend the delegate eon-1 ference to grant the executive plenary | powers to reopen negotiations for a sottlement. There appeared to be a majority of opinion that the trouble should be quickly ended. j Lator in the evening the conference, by a majority of 332,000 votes,- empowered the executive to negotiate | nationally. The "Daily Herald" stresses the importance of the phraseology of tho minors' resolution. It says: "No settlement not really national will be countenanced. That is the bedrock principle which the owners from the first have been determined to destroy. They want district! agreements. They want to break up tho Miners' Federation, which is not going to be broken up."
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 9
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151WEARY OF STRIKE Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 9
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