COAL MINERS’ DECISION
TO LEAVE THE MINES.
A GRAVE POSITION. IUSTIIALI AN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. LONDON, March 30. The Executive of the Miners Federation met Air Horne to-night in a last effort to avert a stoppage at midnight on Thursday. Hodges demanded that the State should subsidise the industry to provide means to pay a wage greater than the coal could at present yield. The profits of industry to provide means to pay a wage greater than tin* coal could at present yield. The profits of industry should also be pooled in order that the pits which were worked at loss should be subsidised. Horne on behalf of the Government said it was impossible tfo subsidise coal. Other great industries were in an even worse position than coal. Many workers were unable to get any employment at all.
At the close of the conference the federation announced that it had been decided to withdraw all workers, including pumpmen.
Horne said this was a very grave statement. He could not believe that coal workers would allow the means of
livelihood to perish. He hoped the Federation would reconsider the matter. He offered to meet the Miners Executive to-morrow. The conference then ended.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1921, Page 2
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