COAL TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1926, Page 2

COAL TROUBLE.

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SOME MINERS RESUME

LONDON, June 11

Nearly two thousand more miners have returned to the Warwickshire mines, and this movement is extending to other coalfields in Nottinghamshire and Lancashire. Many of the men who have resumed are working overtime.

Several of the South Staffordshire owners have offered to re-open their mines on the old terms. The Earl of Dudley is promising a year’s agreement or the eventual National Agreement which ever is the most favourable to the miners. v

One thousand men have returned at two collieries near Bewdley.

There were angry demonstrations against the workers resuming in one or two localities but the situation general ly is calm. THE COAL EMPASSE. TiONDON. June 12. Mr Baldwin, addressing fifteen thousand Unionists at a fete at Chippenham, said he wanted to see the British labour movement, free from allied foreign heresy, pursued and developed on English lines. Ho hoped the time would come for more enlightened statesmanlike minds, both among employers and trade union haulers, to meet and discuss a new industrial policy with whatever hoip the Government could give. He lamented that both sides in the coal industry had thus far rejected arbitration that he offered.

Mr Cook, who is touring Cornwall, said if Air Baldwin attempts legislation to force longer hours, it will l e the start of a British revoluton. “ £ am prepared to have an independent ballot of miners whether they will take longer hours and lower wages or not.”