The Archive · 1926

Executive's Hard Task

London, Oct, 8. The resolution of the Miners Delegate Conference passed yesterday in favour of intensifying the coal dispute imposes a difficult task on the Miners' executive, Tt is agreed that if instructions for the immediate withdrawal of the safety men are issued the response will be doubtful.

Anyhow the Miners' Federation controls only a proportion of the safety men, and other organizations of safety men, including the South Wales Colliery Craftsmen's Association, comprising 60 per cent. of the safety men in South Wales, has already announced that its members will remain at work.

It is pointed out that the Federation has already vainly tried to secure an embargo on foreign coal and that the decision of the Trade miners returned to work to-day, Union Congress to levy other unions has been found impracticable. Reuter.

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