London, Sept. 18, All the' Mine-owners' District Associations with the exception of Warwickshire decided at the coal-owners' meeting to-day to inform Mr. Churchill that they could not agree to national negotiations or empower the Mining Association to. act for them as 'a negotiating body.
Mr, Evan Williams in a letter to 'My. Churchill on behalf of the Mining Association' announces that with the exception of Warwickshire 24 District. Associations' have clear ly and emphatically declined to empower the Mining Association, to enter into agreements on their behalf regarding terms of employment and that therefore no useful purpose could be served by a mect= ing such as was proposed by Mr, Churchill in his letter of September 8 Mr. Evan Williams reiterates that the district owners are anxious to negotiate with the district out ceremony, He says that: none fof the Associations objects, firstly, to the principle of wage regulation reference to ascertained results, secondly, a minimum percentage below which wages cannot fall and thirdly, subsistence wai Waiting for Government's Decision Sept. 14.
'The Miners' Executive hins xrequested the miners to decline to accept the terms offered locally and to await instruct 3 from the Executive pending the Government's The Cabinet Coat Committe today discussed the deadlock for two hours.
Tt is understood that a report on the general situation is being prepared and will be submitted to a fall meeting of the Cabinet on Thursday.
Mr, Baldwin, the Premier, who is on holiday at' Aix-les-Bains, is expected in London to-morrow, Tt is believed that the Committee has concluded that no action is expedient till he returns.—Reuter.
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