Attempt to be Made to Wi withdraw Safety Men from Pits: Question of Whether They Will Obey Orders London, Oct. 7. making the total 197,000—Reuter.
The Miners Delegate Conference to-day carried by 594,000 votes. against 194,000 the South Wales resolution to intensify the struggle and withdraw the safety-men from the mines.
An acrimonious discussion preced.
the vote on the proposal, to intensify the struggle, prevent outcrop work, endeavour to place an embargo on foreign coal and secure trade union levy support for the: miners.
'The rejection by the districts the Government's plan has left th Miners' Federation with only th alternative of continuing the struggle into the winter, striving to maintain the statue quo and to secure a more favourable compromise.
It is generally agreed that the, Conference must immediately decide' the Federation's policy.
The President, Mr. Herbert Smith, criticized the proposal amid protests. He threatened to leave the cha amendment was submitted to the drastic schema of South Wales, which, henceforth, becomes part of the Executive's policy, It ig noteworthy that the Federation controls 85 per cent. of the safety-men in South Wales although the proportion in the rest of the
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