MINERS’ CONFERENCE
NO DECISION REACHED. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, July 24. After three hours in private session, the, Miners’ Conference adjourned without coming to a decision on the Gbvernment proposals regarding working hours. The meeting was stormy, the extreme element expressing great disappointment with what one delegate termed the “quarter measures” of the Government. The discussion wi;l be continued tomorrow, but it is expected that the conference will give the Executive a freo hand to negotiate. PRESS COMMENTS. LONDON, July 24. The Daily Mail declares that the Government has definitely informed tli Miners’ Conference t(iat it is impossible to revoke the Eight Hours Act. They argued that the owners would immediately demand a reduction in tvages, thus provoking a crisis comparable to that of 1926. The Times, in a leader, expresses the opinion that the industry must increase its exports and not load itself with a handicap which would close the overseas markets. Equally intolerable is the suggestion that British consumers should be surcharged in order that cheaper coal can be sold abroad.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1929, Page 5
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175MINERS’ CONFERENCE Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1929, Page 5
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