Meantime, the coal dispute ree mains unchanged, although 12,000 miners have drifted back to work, The Miners' Executive Committee met yesterday, after consulting th areas, and decided to reject the so-called Church proposal to settle the dispute. This Church scheme was that the same subsidy as last year should be renewed for four monthly during which the parties concerned were to argue, and at the end of the period there was to be an arbitration, without, however, the slightest guarantee that the miners except the verdict, We should all the trouble in the coat over again, and every other trade in the country in meantime would have siftered ruin outs uncertainty.
Possibly the decision of the Miners? Executive Committee places this body ina very difficult position, be cause negotiations of any sort ean-not now be initiated. "Tt almost appears, therefore, as' if this dis pute will have to be settled by gradual resumption of work in the mines, which, possibly, with the autumn, will begin on a much larger scale. Of course, there are there who think that' the Government, still should intervene, although what it can do is unimaginable, since the miners in their present mood will accept nothing save the status quo Defore the strike, with a subsidy, which the country cannot and will not pay. Meantime, the total of unemployed has gone up by, 13,000 in a week, and it is clear that mary industries' are having to close down for the time being, despite the fact the country. We have, too, clearly lost some of our foreign markets for good, and it will not be easy that' foreign coal is pouring into recover. perties and riches of the abandoned Jchurches. According to present pians, the churches and their works Jot art, valued at many millions, will placed in charge of committees Jof the C.R.O.M,, national group of inbour organizations, The members of the committee will receive salaries of from two to five dollars Jeach daily for their guardianship.
Some claim that they can see the red hand of Russia at the back of these conflicts. One editorial writer tasks: "Would not the general run Jot incidents recently in both countries suggest a peculiar animosity towards the Roman Church, which by certain socialistic or communist types of thought lias been seemingly ated as a consistent opponent of; such doctrines and an upholder of individual property possession?" The staid "Wall Street Journal" says that the United States refused to recognize the Soviet Government for the reason that the Government Jcould not put the stamp of its apreval upon the Red doctrines "which we hold subversive of our institutions." For the same reason Jand to the same extent that far~ few ay Russia's plan of government Eeeame an American question, that paper claims that so, too, does the Mexican plan of government become Jan American question,
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