MINERS' ABSENTEEISM.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1916, Page 5

MINERS' ABSENTEEISM.

A FOUR HUNDRED MILLION OREEW, EMPLOYING GERMANS IN AGBIK CULTURE. AFRICAN LABOR QUESTION. Received Dec. 5, 5.10 p.m. London, Dec. <-. ' The South Wales' miners rejected ths Federation's t'ceommendations minimising absenteeism, and decided not to establish absentee committees. Th# Ntrthusnberland miners voted in favoj of lining absentees. A supplementary credit of four hundred million was issued to-night, Mr. F. Dyke Acland, in the House ol Commons, stated that in the interests o{ food"'production the Government was Ms ranging to compnlsorily take unoccupied land, also to employ German prisoners, J and was arranging with the War Offlod ! and Munitions Ministry for the highest, ; possible retention of agricultural labor. ' A committee under Lord Selborne undo tahes the welfare of African labor contingents in Kurope. It is stated that some thousands have already reached th( Continent. Mr. Asquith, in the House of Commons, denied that colored labor would bo intrOr duceii into England at present, and added that if such a step were taken it would; not require statutory powers. j BRITAIN AGAIN TRICKED, Received Dec. (i, 12.30 a.m. London, Dec. 8. - The Daily Mail says that Lord Robert Cecil's statement in the House of Commons reveals that Viscount Grey has, again been utterly tricked in the Br*". lavns. "V SKIPPING CONTROL COMMITTEE, Received Dec. 5 10.35 p.m. London, Dec. 4. Sir Kenneth Anderson has been ap« ; pointed a member of the Shipping Con-; trol Cdntmittet. A CRANKS' MEETING. Received Dec. ,'i, 11.30 p.m. Len*on, Dee. 4. The Home Secretary, in a letter to Mr. Stanton, M.P., referring to the projected conference of the so-called National Council of Civil Liberties at Merthy r Tydvill on the 9th, suggested that Mr. Stanton might induce his consituents to ignore the meeting, and so deprive the promoters of the advertiseincut of which the disturbances were a part. Mr. Stanton replied, acquiescing,