HINT OF COAL CRISIS.
BRITISH MINERS DISSATISFIED. By Telegraph.—Press Aun.—CbpyrlgntLondon, July 6. There are' two hundred delegates at the Miners' Federation Conference at Leamington. Mr. Robert Smillie, president of the Miners' Federation, announced that the miners had refused to accept the new Mine? Bill, and that there would probably be a serious crisis on the new wages demand. The executive recommended that the conference demand a reduction in the price of domestic roal by 14s 2d per ton, the amount of the recent increase, which was not justified; also that it demand 2s per day flat rate for all workers over 16 years and Is for those under 16 years. This would involve an additional 30 millions sterMr. Smillie threatened a further wages demand, absorbing the whole of the available surplus, unless the price of coal was reduced. The Ministry of Mines Bill, he said, would be better described as the Enslavement of Miners Bill. The conference postponed a decision. Received July 8, 11.50 p.m. London, July 7. The Miners' Federation accepted the executive's recommendations to demand increased wages, and also a reduction 1n the price of coal—Aus.-TIZ. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1920, Page 5
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190HINT OF COAL CRISIS. Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1920, Page 5
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