COAL STRIKE SETTLED.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3988, 22 July 1915, Page 5

COAL STRIKE SETTLED.

MR LLO YD-€i EG lIG III’ S CONFERENCE. GOOD NEWS FROM SOUTH WALES. AORETCM ENT UNTIL AFTER THE WAR LONDON, July 20. After a conference between the owner* ami Mr Lloyd George new terms were submitted, and tiio Cabinet Ministers later attended the Miners’ (Jmm'jl, whose leaders afterward* left for the various! coal centres, where one hundred meetings will he held to-night to discuss the terms in order to instruct the delegates lor tomorrow's conference.

An optimistic, feeling prevails. Other reports state that a settlement has practically been agreed upon. It extends for six months alter the war, subject thereafter to three months’ notice.

Later. —The coalminers’ strike lias been settled.

TERMS OF THE SETTLEMENT. MEN TO RESUME TO-DAY. “PEACE TREATY” TO RE SIGNED. (Received Juiv 21, 10 ji.m.) LONDON, July 2j. The M misters are remaining at Cardill' until a definite settlement of the proposal.-, jor consideration of the Conference i., nached. 'They are so satisfactory from the workmen’s .standpoint lhai they are certain to he approved, and. to-day a peace, treaty will be signed. The millers are granted:— (I; A new standard wage, which is ail increase of 50 per centum upon tile 1 .S7O standard. (2; A minimum of 10 per centum on tin slendnrd. (3) Payment of six days for five <lavs’ work when on jiightslnft. (4) Surfacemen are included in the agreement. (5) The agreement is to operate for six months after the war, and to he sulr- s ipw nt i y suhj'-ct to three mont.hs’ none . The mi n ar • . ted to resumo work on '1 hurxd iy. Air. Lloyd (Tore o.’ M m:day jiight induei'd the M'u : ltd Ere c:it:v to Drum laic new proposals, ami tire Caoiuet Al misters laid Imui ta for.* tn masters on Tin-day mo. mug. 'the masters assembl'd in one room of a hotel while the Miners' Executive assembled in another, and the Cabinet Ministers moved between the two, until the Executive promised to recommend the terms to to-day * conference. Tin settlement agrees to n fer dispute.-; to the Hoard of Trade. 'The main terms are almost thus" o; the fedi rated an a, including standard arid minimum wages, but the Welsh agreement includes the surface workers. 'I he Kxi imiv," further promised to rer oinniend the men to work on August llaiil; Holiday to help overtake the shortage, but the strike penalties the str;ln rs incurred under the. Munitions Act will be waived. AT THE PISTOL’S POINT. EFFECTS OF THE MEN’S VICTORY. British press opinions. ■!! July 21. 10. MU p.m.) LONDON, July 21. ’The "Daily Chronicle” says that outside South Wales, the nation will not he interested in the terms obtained, but it is impossible to forgot tiio means taken to seeun them, it is an ugly and odious bn-.in >.* for a body of men to improve their position by deliberately holding up the nation m her hour of extreme net d. 'I he miu-

(•r.s' action deserve-; the severest condemnation, and any other judgment would be unjust to all the other great trade unions. 11 they had done what the South Wales miners did the country would now be helpless under the Kaiser'.-, heel. 'The ••J)aiiy Mail” eulogises Mr. Lloyd George, and charaetcri-e* the set tic in-.'lit as his triumph. The ••Morning Post” says the whole transaction is humiliating to the country and the Government. iho men have been tyrannical and tho Goverrun'rnt vacillating. The men have won a victory m ucfiance ( >i the law.

••The Times" says the Munitions Act- has broken down on the first attempt to apply it. .li the Government is going to ignore it, it can hardly apply it in another case. The only satisfactory thing about the whole wretched episode is that- Mr. -Lloyd George was aide to impress the disputants by telling them plainly what the consequences oi their quarrel would he. Hitherto there have been 100 many appeals and. entreaties and far too little plain speaking. No settlement can wipe out the moral injury of the stoppage of the. collieries, which has disgusted our Allies aud delighted our enemies, and shaken our prestige among neutral States, THE AMERICAN STRIKES. FOMENTED BY GERMANS. INVESTIGATION INTO GERMAN PLOTTING. 'WASHINGTON, July 20. Germans fomented the strike at the Remington Anns Company. Bridgeport, Connecticut. The Government has ordered an investigation Onto German plotting throughout the United States, as it is known extensive industrial _ disturbances are designed to interfere with Urn preparation ,cf munitions for the Allies. / “Tho Times” Washington correspondent says that public irritation is growing on a',count of German spies and agents. The “New York Times” asserts that German spies penetrated the 6tate Department. FIT RTF IF R OUTB R E AIvS. (Received July 21, 9-25 p.m.) NEW YOU.iv, July 21. Five thousand workers at the Standard Oil works at Bayonne engaged m loading vessels struck, and are delaying export. . Six hundred men have struck, thus tying up the plant of the Remington Arms Company. BRIDGEPORT STRIKE A FIASCO. (Received July 22, 12.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 21. Latest reports show that tho Bridgeport- strike was a fiasco. The machinists arc still working and Lave been promised eight hours and an extra dollar a day. Till© Labor leaders are chagrined, and declare that the men were locked in. Machinists in tho sub-contracting factories continue to work.