MINERS' STRIKE

Taranaki Daily News, 23 April 1917, Page 5

MINERS' STRIKE

"WRONG TO LOSE HOPS." ' ACTING PREMIER'S ADVIOE. By Telegraph.—'Press Association. Christchurch, April 22. '' tur James Allen and Jir. W. D. S Macdonald passed through ChrlstcWurch to-mght from the West Coast to Weilington. ' Sir James Allen said the conferee* ' with the miners' delegates lasted till 3 ' f a.m. to-day. "I hope," lie said, "the u arrangements made at it which are to be ' ' submitted to the miners will produce ' good results. The delegates played the '> game right through, as far as we were • concerned, and met us in a conciliatory spirit." . Asked if he could give any indication of how long the strike would last, Sir 1 ' James Allen replied that the public > would be very wrong ever to lose hope. ' whole matter is to be discussed by Cabinet on Monday, and the reply from the miners will be received in a very 1 short time. • NATIONAL UNITY. APPROPRIATE WATCHWOKb. Wanganui, Laßt Night A big public meeting was held on Saturday night to dißcuss the coal crisis; . and a resolution was passed appealing to 1 all classes of the community, particular- ' ly to organised labor, to make National Unity their watchword until the enemies of civilisation are subdued. The resolution was also read before a! big audience at the returned soldiers' patriotic entertainment, and was carried! with enthusiasm. Tlie Manawatu Times gives some-, ex* tracts from the Muoiiland Worker* Which is described on its title-page as\ the "official organ of the United Fodcra-' tion of Labor and the Social Democrats Party." This paper openly proclaim* that "the great coal strike," as it terms it, is "against conscription.-' m rotoarka that "practically, all the coal mines of New Zealand are now idle, and a|»ajy a coal famine has begun. There: i*it adds, "every indication that the struggle will iba protracted." SoiwdinM-& even mora ominous not& to ragawt to> ' v other unions, and one that seems suggest a perfect knowledge of th<r con- ' spiracy which ia on foot to dislocate tha "i public services, it says:: "In tha- meantime there is growing unreatj on. tsvesf; waterfront, and in many other 1 Industrial centres as wall.'! It further Suggests (referring to the railway services I . that "although the authorities laid in' much coal in anticipaton of a strike in December,, they cannot have eujfl- I cient supplies to last for the'period over which tha coal Strike seems to proj&lsa to extend." In its editorial' notea under "The Moving Finger," lit also says: "Unless Mini&ters will ligree to cal) iPAflia--■men): togothnu immediately for the purpose of repealing a law-that is so utterly distasteful to all ttie beat elements, and which, already produotivo of much' evil, is pregnant with tha 1 possibilities . of national disastertHero It very littla likelihood of the strike terminating. As- - suming that the Worker has the inside information which its remarks Appear to indicate, the imtlook ftr the people of. this country is not verj£'