Miners' Uphold Sankey' Report

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13938, 17 July 1919, Page 3

Miners' Uphold Sankey' Report

(A., and N^'daMe.)^ ; ■ . • LONDON, July 16. Alb the ootafertmce of ■mineria, Mr Roibfeir't^milLfe, 'Rec'reitia.fy of' the Fed • ' eriaitiioifl, dlendedl, tlhat '<\fa& ' demr-inidsi of the mineiris wore ju^iified-with«-vo---giard to the proposed increase ioi ..the, pa-icfe of coial. l The-Feideraibioiff' Was" 1 deaiiroiuis otf ■ agsd'Sitiing 1 to ttihe ultmois'ti mi ttboretasingf the ouittpuit. The miners demied aibsolutely tibe resqmnisiilblil'ity foir 1 the dhioirtaiefie. He believed ttoit nhltiioMiallfilsialtlkHni atone wooiild the pr-oipeif oiuitipuit by <thci elimfeintiiom of r^ail.ty for . thei : owners air.ct the infrroduicitliora of miwv miadhnmier-y. T!h,e minersi .were Tuoiti likeily tol sibraMi''. every nerve to m^ike foriuiniete for thteowner's. He offered toi the Governmemiti. ttjhaib th© mnnersi would bei willing to .striike im oirdoi- to assiist ■ tHicuni aigaiimisifc hoatfil© oaipntailist. oomibiiniatiom. The. oomlerenioe has passed «, resoluitlon tpledglingl its fuleisit sulppcmti too' ■the Governmeinti o"ni oaaTyincf «uit< the recicwnirneaiidaitii'Oinis comteaned _ in; Mr Justice Snmkerv's. repwiti. ; One himdi'red 1 -a.nd fifty thousand miin;eti-a halve pttiracik nro .Yoir'lckih'.ii'e. th' Imien ifefiwiipitrl .prorpowd re-airlra;n|w(ei-. memrf-i oif hciur®. and ipdeice nateis mi MaSfi/nikey's- 'award). The miasiteiis baive noibhiioras! tb do . wiith the quiairrel, which is bebwieetni the Ooirxil Oomlttroßer'--jainid thlei mabeMa.