THE COAL STRIKE
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A BALD ANNOUNCEMENT A CROWING -SCONTENT. AT CONTINUANCE OF STRIKE. LQNDION, March 15. The Conference sat for four hours. A bald official anonuncement states that further discussion will take place to-morrow. The Miners' Federation has resolved that the minimum wage demands must ■bo left in the hand., of the Executive, but is willing that local negotiations be held in regard to the wages of day men and piece workers, other than coal getters, if the miners' minimum is first agreed to.
The Federation has also accepted a proposal that a nominee of the Government should attend the local negotiations.
The Daily News states' that Mr Smillie, _ VicenPresident of the Miners' Federation, has laid down an intimation against discussing the schedule, but the English delegates assert that he exceeded his instructions. l
The English miners are willing to discuss the schedules if the Scottish and Welsh owners accept the minimum. . s
Mr Arthur Chamberlain, in an interview, stated that the miners" demands are just, and must be granted immediately. The State might refund any loss which the owners might incur, or grant them a. release from existing contracts, which they could renew at a higher figure. The ultimate result will be National oAvnership. Non-unionist miners have resumed work in two Lancashire pits. There is a growing discontent among non-unionist miners in Scotland.
A meeting of the miners of Sunderland protested again t the continuance .qf the strike, and agreed that the Durham lodges should urge tjfie members to return, and if the Federation has failed to effect a truce for the week end:
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10585, 16 March 1912, Page 5
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274THE COAL STRIKE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10585, 16 March 1912, Page 5
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