THE COAL SITUATION
200 MILLS IDLE. ’.Reuter’s Telegram.) (Reeeivejd this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Sept.. 19. Two' hundred mills will be idle at Oldham on Monday by a strike of spinners ,who repudiated the agreement concluded by the Union on their behalf. Thirty thousand- operatives are affected’. : . STILL IN CRITICAL POSITION. : I “reuter's” telegram.) - (Received This-Day, at 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, September 20. r Tlie coal situation was unchanged at the week end, but the next few days will be charged with the most fateful eonse- ~i quences for the .country, whose- economic life is threatened by the shattering blow involving inevitable destitution and misery- for millions. In some quarters a hopefulness is expressed, based on the reported readiness of the Government to provide a rush court of inquiry to investigate and report upon the wage advance in a few days. These quarters declare Sunday’s meetings in the mining districts indicated that the men were not anxious to strike and it is. admitted that the public generally is -against the miners.
On the other hand the meetings showed that the men will support the leaders.
To-day’s resumed conference between Sir R. Horne and the miners’ leaders is regarded as the most* critical and as the key to the situation. To-morrow they will meet in London the national conference of miners leaders to decide- the question of a strike at the end of the week while on Wednesday the railway-' men and transporters will meet to determine their attitude in- the event of a strike. A dangerous factor as regards the railwaymen is the widespread belief that their union funds will be as hard hit by a miners strike, owing to unemployment doles, as if the railwaymen struck themselves and the fund earned strike pay. Consequently this is encouraging the leaders to say “let’s strike to get it over quickly and win.” Meanwhile it is authoritatively declared that Government will not -depart from its present policy, namely arbitration and an enquiry must precede any grant of increased wages, although slight modifications in are possible-
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1920, Page 2
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