BRITISH INDUSTRIAL TROUBLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 62, 4 September 1911, Page 5

BRITISH INDUSTRIAL TROUBLES

[ WELSH MINERS WARNED. 1 By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. | Received 3, 5.5 p.m. London, September 3. The Mining Association practically agreed to meet the representatives of the Miners' Federation to discuss the question of a minimum wage for working in abnbrmal places. It is cxpeetii they will meet prior to the annual conference of the miners in October. Mr. Mabon warned the South Wales miners that if they struck they would be cut off the Welsh coalfields and from the policy of the Miners' Federation,, part of which was a common action to secure a minimum wake. He deprecated the miners following the example, of railway men, which he characterised as a "magnificent collapse." The leaders thereof were wisp, in surrendering, but utterly unwise in pretending to have secured !i victory. THE MINIMUM WAGE. London, September 1. The proposed conference of South Wales miners concerning a minimum wages lias been abandoned on the ground that, although two-thirds of the replies received were favorable, the number was insufficient to justify a conference. IX CASE OF STRIKES. London, September 1. The Home Office has instructed ten officers of the Staff College to make a comprehensive survey of London, and to compile lists of food and coal depots, and to mark strategic points for the maintenance of traffic routes in the event of strikes.