MINERS' PEACE TERMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 October 1920, Page 5

MINERS' PEACE TERMS.

SUFFERING BY THE STRIKE. THOUSANDS OP UNEMPLOYED. Received Oct. 22, 5.5 p.m. t London, Oct. 21. MI. Hodges, the miners' secretary, stated that the peace conditions were as follows:

(1) The Government must accept the assurance that the miners are anxious for,the output, and will willingly assist in securing it. (2) The two shillings must be con> ceded unconditionally. (3) Committees shall be established to deal with the output. He'explained thaj the miners are prepared to do't)ieir"part in securing the output, provided tbey are enabled, jointly with the owners, to exercise «ome control over the causes of the low output, and to check, for technical and other reasons, the causes of inefficiency. The official returns from Lancashire and Cheshire show the increase of unemployed to be three thousand daily. Donations and benefits were paid yesterday to nearly thirty thousand people. Many steamers are idle for want of cargoes. The seafaring community is already suffering great hardship. " Between 60,000 and 100,000 transport workers are compulsorily idle throughout the country, while the railway services are being gradually curtailed. There are 20,000 unemployed at Cardiff and Swansea, where numbers of tinplate workers signed a contract to go to Canada, saying they were "fed up" with strikes and the uncertainties of Welsh industry.—Renter Service.