BRITISH COAL STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 May 1921, Page 5

BRITISH COAL STRIKE.

SEEKING A WAY OUT.

PREMIER PROPOSES MEETING.

London, May 13. It is understood that Mr. Lloyd George contemplates asking the owners and miners to The Chequers, the new country residence of British Prime Ministers, during Whitsuntide. There were a number of unofficial conversations today seeking a way out of the difficulty which will not involve a national pool and yet secure for the miners a living wage. Mr. Henderson, spdaking at a big labor demonstration at Chelmsford, said Mr. Lloyd George had made a most conciliatory speech to-day, and he hoped the conference of miners and owners would be resumed shortly. Owing to the faulty railway facilities many hundreds of motor charabancs left London for the seaside. There was also an unprecedented rush of passengers on aeroplanes going to the Continent. Whitsuntide will be a “stay at home holiday” for many districts are trainless and thus there will be no Great Eastern suburban trains between Saturday night and Tuesday morning. On other lines there will only be a Sunday service with many stations closed. Despite the dockers’ embargo coal is being readily discharged at Glasgow, and though pickets persuaded most of the carters to refuse to handle goods, private motor cars are coping with the work. Nevertheless the general situation in Glasgow is serious, as 7000 railway men are striking at midnight, affecting 30.000 employees between Oban and Carlisle.

Glasgow railwaymen decided last night that there should be no sectional strike, pending negotiations for the reinstatement of the suspended members.