THE COAL STRIKE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10595, 29 March 1912, Page 5

THE COAL STRIKE

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Association—By Eleo tric Telegraph— Copyright.)

A DECISION COAL MINERS FEDERATION. WILL WORK BE RESUMED? (Received Marci 2S, 8 a.m.) LONDON, March 27. 'iho Miners' Fedcratk u lias decided •to take a; ballot as to whether the Mien will resume work. The ballot paper asks whether the men will' resume work: pending the district boards' settlement of the aninimuni in the various grades. Mr Ramsay Maedontild, interviewed, said ho advised the strikers to accept the B'mi- and proceed to establish jloint boards in order to get early decisions on such simp!-? points as 5s a day workers. If the decisions were •satisfactory they should be regarded •as an indication of what other decisions were likely to oe, and work could he resumed, immediately, or be' recommended a' ballot as an alternative. Mr V. HMi-tshorn, Glamorgan, labour leader, interviewed, said the strike was...only commencing. He anticipates, with the -Labour M.P.'s assistance arid ma kg meetings throughout the country, to organise dogged resistance. "Then, he • said/'v it will be seen who will hold out ,-. the longest—the "mi'iners or the nation." Mr Stanton, another Labour leader, interviewed jvs to his view regarding the DcAldarity of lii.hour, said the miners could within a week, by the stoppage of railways and other transport, bring the Government to its. knees, and beg the workers to resume on terms now declared to be impossible. Notwithstanding the above opinions, outside the conference the lajtter'i? reoom.menda.tion to take a ballot is interpreted as being intended . to j rffove responsibility for future'••action, i upon the minors. . J ; '''