EARLIER EVENTS.
MINERS BLAMED. DIFFERENCE OF OPINION CAUSED London, April 15. The secretary of the locomotive engineers states that other unions considered the miners wrong in refusing to negotiate on the lines of Mr. Hodges’ suggestion. In the House of Commons, the Premiei announced that the miners had decider that a temporary settlement was only possible by a concession that such a surrender would be disastrous to the nation. Messrs. Lloyd George, Chamberlain Horne, and the mine owners waited at the Board of Trade for 45 minutes, bul the Miners’ Executive did not appear They held a meeting at Unity House, and it is rumored that they disagreed regarding Mr Hodge’s proposal to negotiate or wages alone, whereupon Mr. Hodges offered to resign, but his colleagues refused to accept his resignation.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. EMERGENCY PRECAUTIONS. MEN NOT ENTHUSIASTIC. London, April 14. London taxi-cabs will continue to ply but the union advises members that they must only carry passengers, not merchandise. The leaflet giving instructions to transporters declares that the power of the Triple Alliance will prove greater than the Government and employers now foresee. Members of the unions must avoid violence or provocative actions Every attempt made to destroy the power of trade unionists by blackleg labor will be countered by the directors of the strike using the offers of outside unions to help as they deem best. As the hour of putting the strike notices into operation draws nearer the divergence of opinion in the rank and file of the railwaymen and transporters is more marked. No enthusiasm is displayed regarding the strike, the feeling being that a ballot should have been taken first, but it is expected loyalty to the executives will make most members down tools, though a number of district meetings indicate that a considerable proportion of the men are against the general strike policy. The difficulties of the Triple Alliance are increased by the lowness of the trade union funds. The first distributions of strike pay were made to-day. The Warwickshire miners received 15s and boys 7s 6d. There was no distribution in Yorkshire, where the union funds are specially low. The Nottingham miners who can afford to do so are being asked to accept vouchers redeemable in the future, in order that the fund may be eked out.
At the joint conferences Mr. Hodges’ announcement of willingness to discuss wages alone was the dramatic turning point in the situation. Members of Parliament, the great bulk of whom are Coalitionists, saw immediately its importance and seized the opportunity of turning it to good advantage speedily, hence the extraordinary rapidity of the
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1921, Page 5
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