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MINERS WAGE FALL.
DIRE STRAITS OF THE FEDERATION.
A. J. COOK STILL MAKING THREATS,
LONDON; June 2nd. Wo intimated on, May 25th says a copy to hand of the London Daily Telegraph that a very unwelcome wage drop in the mining industry
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Do London...Elio nom. Chartered Bank............£20 nom. Mercantile Bauk, A. B...2302 ňom.
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A new public school, Bryanston, is to be opened shortly.The pro- perty acquired, Bryanston Estate, North the property of Lord Portman, lies Union Insurance
Yunglaze Obius close to the market town of Bland-
Firo
Kong Fire Lue...9000 sol.
was imminent, and the forecast was ford, Dorset. It includes 400 acres Houses
The mansion is a fue building worthy of its surroundings. Com pleted in 1807, it is regarded as admirably suited for a school." There is a main oak-panclied cor- ridor, 100 yards long, and the three largest rooms can each accommo date 200 to 300 people.
Stambouts
Hlar aparta
fulfilled with severity by the ascor- of land and a long stretch of the tainments which became operative river Stour. So the new school will Hong Kong Tugs... yesterday. Their effect is to bring start with splendid opportunities for Indo-Chinas (Fref.)
Do, (Def.) wages in almost evory coalfield football, cricket, rowing, and swim-
Shelf T down to the minimum guarantee ming,
Waterboats........ of tho 1980 agreements. Lancashire
Malabon Bugars stands above zero for the present,
China Sugars.... Banguete Phut its impending ascertainment
Alan Mining Ad... may reveal the same condition as
Langhate (combined). Do. (single) naw operates in South Wales, York shire, Durbam, and Scotland. This
Sh. Exploratione
Rouba general fact of industrial depres
Shanghat Lopus... Tronoh Mines sion and wage fall is sufficient in
Ural Caspiana itself to give a note of anxiety to
H.K. & K. Wharfs H.K. the delegate conference of the Miners' Federation being held to day and to-morrow, the first to be held since the prolonged strike ended. By unhappy coincidence, this first re-assembly to the consequences disorganising a
MARTIN'S
national industry,
A "provisional prospectus" has recently been drawn up by a com antice including the Bishop of Liverpool,
the
of
W.
Hongko headmaster
prospectus states that
Douku...
..$1.10 sel $30 nom. .$00 sal.
18/. nom. ..$52) sel.
$16.20 buy. 519 ક્ષણો.
$32 nom. $1.70 buy 40%. bay. Tia, 201 Róm. Tis. 91 noni „Tla. 3) now. Tle. 7
Bon
$4 nom, ..19/3 nom, ..8/- 10m. ..$108 bay. $38 BOM Tle. 145 buy.
..is..
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..$0.90 sol.
971 buy,, Lou sol.
Christ's Hospital, the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Earl of Shaftesbury, scheme has been launched, in the Hong Kong Realt Brat place to incet the difficulty Humphreys Rotates felt both in this country and in the Prince's Buildings.... Dominions of gaining admission to Rural Landy. our public schools." Special provi-Ewo Cottons sion will therefore be made for ap- Orientals plications throughout the Empire.
New Engineering H.K. & S. Hotels Shanghai Dooks18,
Lands.......... 8551 buy. HK.
Realty......36 sal.
"The school itself will seek to
One result is that a number of new departures from custom will be made, it is hoped. For instance:
Short Time And Mines Not Paying. The extent of the wage fall, and the fixing of a percentage figure which looks vague to the general public, but is vital to the miners, do not in themselves measure the misfortune of the industry. From evolve on independent lines and to the miners' point of view, there develop a curriculum closely in syn must be added the fuller effects.pathy with the needs and aspira Short-time working, and from the tions of modern life." owners' point of view there must be added the painful fact that, even on the reduced minina now operat ing, many of the mines aro not pay ing. They are producing coal at a joas, and must meet out of capi- tal & margin between costs and selling prices. I hear of Yorkshire collieries at which this loss is 25. ton, and in South Wales the shortage on three months' produc-i
twelve lion-representing nearly million tons-was 18. 2d. a tou. Some collieries have gone out of production and others will have
to cease,
There will never be more than two half-holidays a week.
No work of any kind will be done before breakfast.
nom. $130 40.4.
$le nom. Tis, 7,95 mol. Tla. 2.10 nom i Cottons (old)...Tis, 52 buy, Shangbai
26 bay. Do. (new)....TE. Chine Buses.............Tia, 7 buy: HK. Tramways...$30.55 hay, 20.40 Bei.
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-7.20 801. (old)......60 nom. Do. (new)......1 sab
Do.
One of the two Sunday chapel China Lights (comb....$14 el. aervices will be voluntary.
Corporal punishment will be ad ministered by masters only, never by boys.
On week-days in the summer the school dress will be grey tennis. shorts and white tennis shirts.
Bowler hata, will lie wern on Sundays.
No Latin is to be taught in the senior forms of the school.
Effects Of The Strike, " While this is grave and disap pointing, it is not more grave than was anticipated, for the Samuel Commission amply forewarned the whole industry of the disaster im- ment of non-political miners
advised pending, and
remedies anions in several areas. The old which the Miners Federation re Nottinghamshire Association, re fused to accept. A most unfavour duced almost to a vanishing point, able position was made infinitely is pressing for a single union as worse by the strike, and the hope its means of salvation, and it is ful anticipation of the Commission possible that a special committee that export-prices- would show &-will-be-instructed to report to the rising tendency has not been fuL Luly conference at Southport on filled. Mr. A. J. Cook and mem- that issue.
A. J. COOK INTERVIEWED.
A.Stil Gráver Crisis Ahead." To an interview, Mr. A: J. Cook,
secretary of the Miners' Federa- grave mining tion, said that crisis would develop in this coun try later in the year. Reviewing the summer wage rates now dig closed, he proceeded:
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(DEF)...... China Providents.........$4 bay. Constructions ..............$2.30 now..
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bers of the miners' executive-who met in London yesterday-blame the eight hours day, and superfi- cially there looks to be something in the argument; but as a hard fact the extended day has been the one enabling meats for hundreds of collieries to continue winding. It reduced costs of production very substantially, and it gave cheng coal-cheaper than some could have expected for industrial, export, and household purposes. The in- "In my candid judgment this dustry has made its gesture to the position is so intolerable that every nation; it has shown that cheap one of the agreements arrived at and abundant coal is possible, but at the close of last year's struggle, were compelled to it has not received an equivalent when the men help in the form of reduced costs, work on any terms, will irrevocably either of transport charges, rates,
break down, because of the impos. taxation, or colliery supplies. An sibility of the men to maintain ON adequate return to the undertak themselves under their provisions. ings would have reduced the pro- It is more than flesh or blood can
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GOLD Iæar, 100 fine, per vél.... May, 134,700 miners were emplor- the prices of inland coal. This un- BAR SILVER, per az.. ed, as compared with 171,414 in happily is all the result of last June of 1924; it has touched York-year's policy of the Government shire, Scotland, and South Wales, and the coal owners of Great but unless the burden of mining Britain in deciding to lengthen the costs is relieved, or markets im- miners', working hours and reduc- prove, the process must become stilling the weekly wages, and I more severe. Yorkshire falis back foresee a crisis approaching for on its guaranteed minimum of 38 greater than anything yet which por cent, but in that county again, the mining industry of this coun had there been no guarantee, the try has experienced." economie wage would have been 24.2
AN APPEAL FOR PEACE. per cent. on 1911 base rates. These
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amount
sent the most important subject to sociation, in his June circular to. the miners' conference, assembling the members, refers to the slump in to-day. They overwhelin questions the coal trade. He says that all of transfer and recruitment, or a responsible leaders should face the .new international committee. facta and work for harmonious re They bring into prominence thelationships in the industry. Others question of the single national might afford to indulge in high-
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[In view of the fact that nothing workers about the collieries are was telegraphed by Reuter it is separating themselves. A third safe to assume that no counsels of factor the post-strike develop-violenos were adopted at the Con-
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