COAL TROUBLE

Hokitika Guardian, 15 June 1926, Page 2

COAL TROUBLE

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

COAL TROUBLE. LONDON, June 13. The “ Daily Mail,” in and editorial, says:—The nation is becoming anxious to know “what influences are accountable for the government’s failure to stop the flow of Soviet gold to assist the strike. Soviet leaders, without exception, are thieves and murderers, and are propagandists of robbery, atheism and murder. We are sinking below the eternal law when we deal with men who openly exalt evil and crime. The gold should be stopped. The Soviet’s representatives also ought to be turned out bag and baggage.” LONDON, Juno 13. The “Morning Post” emphasises the significance of a question which MiWheatley, the Labourite, is putting to Mr Baldwin to-morrow as to whether the Government is willing to accept Sir J. Samuel’s memorandum ns the basis of a coal settlement of the Miners’ Federation agree. The “Morning Post ” asks: “Is Mr Wheatley asking on behalf of the Federation ?” LONDON, June 13. For to-morrow’s sitting, the order paper of the House of Commons bristles with questions regarding Russian contributions for the miners. The Communist newspaper “Sunday Worker,” in a message from Moscow, discloses, on the authority of Tomsky, President of the Council of Trades Unions, that money was not paid to the British Trade Union Congress. This was because the English banks refused lo effect payment of one hundred thousand to the General Council. The banks were acting under instructions from the Government.