THE COAL TROUBLE
[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.} MINERS’ DECISION. LONDON, Sept. 3. From nil day general and sectional discussions, the Miners’ Federation Executive emerged late yesterday afternoon with an important majority decision to recommend the Delegate Conference to grant the Federation Executive plenary powers to re-open negotiations for settlement. There appeared to he a majority of the opinion that the trouble should be quickly ended. Laj'er in the evening, the Delegate Conference, by a majority of 332 thousand votes, empowered the Federation Executive to negotiate nationally. Tb “Daily Herald” stresses the importance of tno phraseology / of the minors’ resolution. The “Herald’’ says: “No settlement not really national will he countenanced. That is the bedrock principle which the coal owners, from the first, have been determined to destroy. They want district agreements. They want to break up the Miners’ Federation, which is not going to be broken up.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1926, Page 3
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147THE COAL TROUBLE Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1926, Page 3
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