The Archive · 1924

The Miner's Ballot

London, Jan. 17.

It it officially announced that, the ballot of miners has resulted 10,000 to 114,000 votes against giving three months' notice to terminate the National Wages 'The miners' executive will meet the mino-owners this afternoon, They are expected to endeavour to negotiate a revision of the Washington, Jan, 17. doab's exploit. Ho has telegraph.

with, henaned his congratulations to the crew and issued a statement that "from all our information may positively be asserted that there is hardly a possibility that this ship will encounter, in her Arctic expedition such a severe test as she has already met suocessfully."—Reuter's American In the event. of failure of the negotiations a further ballot and 'a two-thirds majority of the voters are necessary before a strike is possible.—Reuter,

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