COAL TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1926, Page 3

COAL TROUBLE.

[Australian & N.Z.Table Association.]

LONDON, July 23

The Australian cricketers have autographed n. hat, which will be sold to the highest bidder for the benefit of the coal miners’ wives and their children. OWNERS’ HOPES. LONDON, July 23. A sprinkling of miners are returning to work daily, but there is no sign of any general breakup of the strike at the present. 1 The Government has issued the names of a committe to consider cooperative coal selling, and is also arranging for a committee to deal with the coal transport, which is considered wasteful. The Archbishop of York, defending the Churches’ intervention, said the (Government could not he allowed to leave this matter to lie settled by the exhaustion of one of the parties. The “Daily Express’s" political correspondent mentions a feeling in official circles that Mr Cook’s activities to prevent the importation of foreign coal into Britain are perilously rear a breach of the emergency laws. BYE-ELECTIONS AGAINST GOVERNMENT. , The “Daily , Herald” claims the Wallsend election victory, following Y Labour wins at Darlington, Easthum , and Hammer,sfith, indicates there is a great swing towards labour throughout the country. PARIS, July 22. The Miners’ International rejected Mr Herbert Smith’s motion seeking to pledge the countries to work one day less while the British strike lasts. .

HAVELOCK WILSON. LONDON, .July 22

The President, Mr Havelock Wilson, at the annual meeting of the National Union of Seamen, uttered a. warning against what he .termed the undemocratic tendencies of the present trade union leadership, which was resulting in disastrous strikes being called without consulting the members. The Government significantly declared :—“'['he majority of our union’s branches are demanding that our union s kall ceaso its affiliation with the Labour Party, but only a ballot of the whole of our members can decide the question. If our members’ demands for exemption from the payment of the political levy continues, at the present rate, then soon not a single member will pay it.” The meeting, with only one dissentient, endorsed Mr Wilson’s strike timo actions.