WELSH MINERS' DISPUTE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 349, 29 March 1910, Page 5

WELSH MINERS' DISPUTE.

FURTHER ATTEMPTS AT CONCILIATION. By Cable.—Press Association—Copyright London. March 25. The President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Sydney Buxton, received representatives of the coal miners and afterwards delegates' of the Miners' Federation, lie persuaded both to agree to a further meeting of the Conciliation iSoara at Cardiff on Saturday.

The Times states that sympathy with the Miners' Federation in Britain is already estranged in a not inconsiderable degree, by the Welsh miners' opposition to the double operation in Northumberland and Durham. / It is .possible the Federation will ap- j ply pressure to prevent a strike. j OPERATION OF THE EIGHT HOURS' J LAW. | London, March 25. | Sir W. Runciman, President of the; Board of Education, speaking at South 1 Shields', said the eight hours principle kad already dislocated trade and rendered thousands idlte. Should a groat gtrike occur, the suffering would penetrate hundreds of thousands of homos. Nobody heeded Lord Herbert Gladstone's advice to consumers to bestir themselves to prevent the passage of the Bill, the consumers were chiefly to blame, hut both political parties were culpably responsible for allowing themselves to be bullied and cajoled into adopting a sinister jolicj. _ _ <