COAL TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1926, Page 3

COAL TROUBLE.

[Australian <fe N.Z. Cable Association.] COAL BILL PASSED. LONDON, July 2. Tho Miners Eight Hours Bill, should it bo given the Royal Assent on Wednesday, stands alone as a lever to forco negotiations, though Mr Baldwin’s latest conciliatory speech has aroused speculations in the lobby of the House of Commons as to whether the Government is now willing to force the whole of the Coal Commission’s report on the mine owners, if tile Miners’ Federation accepts it. However, the matter is outside the range of practical politics, as the miners' leaders show no signs of weakening. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Labour correspondent, however, records that four hundred miners returned to work at old rates for eight hours at Castleford. This, he says, is a .significant example, and may have the- widest effect in West Yorkshire coalfields. MINERS GAOLED. LONDON, July 2. Eight Crainlingtoii miners were sentenced to terms ranging irem four to eight weeks penal servitude at Newcastle Assizes for participating in the derailment of the “Flying Scotsman” express during the general strike.