Dee report. states that it must have been known to the miner:
Tetacs apts one Semanal leaders of other unions, that some. Soar oe oe in sail Sodsarey would have to be seorganied betta it could continue to pay, and that it tras time that some didvront methods of arriving at that end were adopted Shan merely that st tong abies! Bevel wth miserable wages "We that to continue with hat ti ile, and we I oran merely to stand. by all not The Government intends, however, to keep on being fair. Between the passing of the 8-Hours Bill in *he Commons and its consideration in the Lords, the Yorkshire owners published terms which were not regarded as satisfactory because on April $0 the mine owners agreed to offer uniform ratios, namely 87 to 13, while in ad. I dition' now there is a return to the 1921 Agreement representing 20 per feet. above the standard wage as against 834 per cent. which prevailed when the stoppage began. The ratios Jabove mentioned are of course those on which the profits are divided, and the Yorkshire mine owners suggested not 87 to 13 but 85 to 15. Lord Cecil in the House of Lords used the expression that this action by the Yorkshire Mine Owners was "profoundly unsatisfactory" and declared, that unless the proper terms wera offered the Government would hang, up the 8-hours Bill altogether. Thereupon the Yorkshire ow promptly climbed down, explaining! that they had only varied the profits because of the cost of mine development in Yorkshire. The Bill, therefore, now will probably beesme law] of thousands ie 224 this evening.
'The Owners' Offers There is no sign at present that With regard to the departure of] the mon will return to work under the miners' executive from London, as a consequence of which the Pre-the bill. Probably, however, they will begin to dribble back shortly and ier was kept waiting all day on the that is what Mr. Cook and his friends} Sunday while the miners were recalled to continue negotiations (the are frightened of. Here pire the General Council had reopened them) terms now generally offered to the The statement shows in the it fg stated. fuer feats our pinto, to the "irvach This was very rogrett frat place the effect of the: new proposals and then the average w:
ume night which caused the Which could be earned in a full week by hewers who who do the hardes throwing out of work of some "one accepted, no, reduction re, no reduction Yo per cent reduction no reduction ganized ina try to sifer some ten. Zation' period. than, to, theow "300,000, rary reduction during " reorgant-
workers' and their families into destitu vat a number of men earning, Admission. of te. th situation was "too grave to justify their being tied to a mere slogan." The Samuel Memorandum was an equitable basis for negotiating a settlement in the mining industry. 'The General Council have never had any. doubts that it the 'Miners' Executive had adopted the memorandum and joined with the Counefl. in calling off the strike, the lock-out notices would have been withdrawn, negotiations set, and an acceptable arrangement rived at. The General Council's statement concludes:
General Counet-could na. Tign'by'the: Gouterence of Bay 1 and, fellow the Sines Exeesthee tua. oh It should be borne in mind that the figures are exclusive of the value lof coal and rent allowances, which average 12/~ a wel and Durham and 3/~ for the rest of the country, though in some districts there are no such allowances. Meantime foreign coal is abundant here and selling at £3:
04 a ton, and the inconveniences of the strike, save in the industrial districts, are small. There are too, including the miners, 33 million unemployed and 14 million of them on Poor Law Relief, Still we all think elutely clear on what is optimism rests.
Mr. Thomas's Triumph concerned, Council wore not justified In permitting the Unions to continue the sacrifice queier daycrssThe strike. was Cnitaamely" Gat in view iminaced for one sutiient sean
Soda the Mer rodeo continuance would have rendered' its purpose futile.
Yet Mr. Cook keeps on screeching for a half-penny off, not a minute and in the House the Labour Party is showering the Prime, Minister with abuse, in order to undermine his influence. There is,! too, an incessant stream of personal detiaction and impugnment of motives and character, far too systematic to be spontaneous. Such 5 expressions as "liar" "hypocrite" and "murderer" are merely the frothy spray thrown up from this steady} stream of vilifteation by clumsy. hands.
Mr. J. H, Thomas won a great! personal triumph at the Railwaymen's Conference at Weymoutis, leompletely routing the critics of his action on the General Council of the Trade Union Congress during! the general strike. He showed by documen: s that opposition was inspired by Communism. After a whole day's debate only six delegates persisted in their intention to vote for his dismissal. The Conference however, was intensely annoyed at what i describes as the victimization of strikers who came out in May last. It seems that one] or two companies are penalizing number of the men but I am atr the Railway Companies have to out }down labour owing to the reduction lof both freight ard passengers. The men probably expect a little too
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