BRITISH LABOUR CRISIS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1921, Page 3

BRITISH LABOUR CRISIS.

CABLE NEWS.

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. RAILWAY VIEWPOINT. reuter’s telegrams. 'Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, April 29. The Railway Review declares there is an inner drama concerning the reason for calling off the railway strike, and this will he revealed, when the minors dispute is settled. The paper says this will alter the perspective and declares tjiey were absolutely against a sympathetic strike. It instances the fart that along a 240 mile stretch of the southern main ling of railways only fifty men were ready to strike, while in one branch near Somerset coalfields the strike, resolution failed to get a seconder. STRIKE RESULTS. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, April 29. Owing to trie coal strike and the hapid depletion of funds, the Manchester Cotton Reconstruction Board has notified the cotton workers that unemployment pay will cease on 7th May. The Ipswich dockers refused to unload coal from Belgium. Voluntary labour under police protection unloaded the vessel. The dockers struck as a protest and will not resume until the coal steamer leaves port.

THE MINERS REFUSAL. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m ) LONDON, April 29. The National Miners’ Executive have decided, owing to several fatal accidents through men taking coal at outcrops that such work must cease. .Moderate leaders in Derbyshire and Notts agree that the Government’s offer should have been accepted. A meeting of flu l Executive .of the Scottish miners resolved to abide by the decision to reject the owners offer. Sir R. Horne in the Commons said he regretted the result of the coal negotiations. Government had struggled hard to reach a settlement, and had made the miners a generous offer. It was now clear that the reason for stoppage was flint the miners- had not been granted a national pool and their reason was a political one.