Oct. 12.
While the miners in their spective districts are proposal of the Miners' Federatio. Conference to call out the safety men from the pits, the safety. men themselves are taking action.
'A deputation from the Federation lof Colliery Deputies and Firemen's Associations, representing 30,000 safety" men, was received at the Ministry of Labour to-day. and discussed the situation with Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, to whom they submitted the position of the deputies who refused unemployment benefit during the stoppage.
Simultaneously the—_National Executive of thix Federation met, and urged that the time had com] to reach a settlement.
It is understood that the Federation adheres to its policy of advising the safety men to
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