THE COAL STRIKE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10579, 9 March 1912, Page 5

THE COAL STRIKE

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Association — By M& trie Telegraph — Copyright.)

NO APPRECIABLEgGHANGE

CONFERENCE WITH PREMIER

GENERAL RISE IN BREAD

(■Received This Morning, 12.5 o'clock.}

LONDON, Uarcli S. There is no appreciable change in the strike. The Miners' Executive will not yield without instructions from the National Conference. The summoning of Scottish owners' representatives to confer with the Premier, is regarded optimistically. The Premier, speaking in the House of Commons, stated that the exigencies of the situation were not such as to make Parliamentary discussion desirable. The Industrial Council, owing to tnc resumption of Government negotiations, have isuspended meetings until Tuesday. " It is reported in Cardiff that some of the leading South Wales owners, whoibave hitherto been restrained, by the extreme pressure of the "no-surrend-ers," wiili break away and join the English owners in the settlement terms. There has been a general riso in the price of bread, the delay and disappointment over the Argentine crop being the controlling causo, but the coal strike has hastened the decision. ( Coal exported in February in view of the threatened strike was 028,555 tons above February of last year. Four hundred thousand industrial workers are idle. . The strikers wrecked the building and burned the engine-house at lo-b-rax colliery in the Midlothian, where a few non-unionists were working.