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Miners' Statement on Government Proposals.

MONDAY, MAY 30, 1921.

demonstration of the Impractic ability of the miner's damand:“

Richardson resolutely ↑ ok-up the position from the first that be A CHANGED OFFER?.

could not bind himself to pay the But has not the Government allowance, although it was pro- made an essential changs in the bable that his daughter would offer conrayed by the Prime have it. He was going to ask In our issue of the 5th inst. Minister? Is it not now offering the Court to say that Mr. Hudson we gave the miners' statements a subsidy out of public fands in did rot marry this lady for £100 a as to the merits_of_the_coal aid of wages in the districts Tea), and that the alleged promise dispute. Below will be found which would be hardest-hit by did not operate to bring about the the answer of the Miners" Federa-the proposed reductions? Apart union,

tion to the Government proposal. From the fact that such a subsidy Major Richardson said that The Miners Federation met does not touch the essential point when the marriage settlement the Prime Minister in the hope of a national settlement versus was prepared it included a coven- that they would hear from the district settlements, the proposal ant to pay £125 a year, bat ha Government A DeK proposal made by the Prime Minister is instructed the solicitors to strike which would at least make it worthless in itself—

it out, as he was determined not

possible for negotiations to con- It is apparently to be confund to be bound isgally to pay it. He tinae with some hope of success. to aid extending only over a was annoyed at the covenant But when the Prime Minister, period of a few weeks; and when being includad and he and his presented bis draft proposal to it lapsed at the end of this period, wife decided that they would f them they found that it was in there would be no better prospect bare nothing to do with the all its essential features identi-than there is now of an accept settlement, but the solicitor per- eal with the terms put forward able adjustment of conditions insuaded them to yield from that by the owners, which the miners the industry unless the owners position had already been compelled to are prepared to

He declined to be bound to pay accept the reject.

Įprinciple of a national pool.

the allowance because his income It is true that the Prims Migis- The miners are not asking for was very fluctuating. Bath his ter's draft contained no actualla permanent subsidy from the wife's and his own income had figures as to the wages which Government; but the temporary

been affected by the war. were to be paid. It was confined assistance given must be enough to the principles, which were to to enable the present depression Field and Sons, solicitors, of govem the determination of to be overcome, and must, above Leamington, deposed that Mr. wages; but it accepted absolute-fall, be accomanied by a real Richardson always said that he ly the principles advocated by national settlement based on the could not be bound to pay be the owners as the basis of wage concession of the national pool. Causa bis income was uncertain. determination and rejected ab-The national pool thus remains as solutely the principles put for-the one essential condition of a ward by the miners.

settlement.

NO ALTERNATIVE.

Mr. Henry. Field, of Messrs.

Mr. Justice Shearman, in giving judgment, said that the real question was whether this was a The Government thus took its

voluntary promise or one legally stand absolutely with the owners! The miners have done their binding. He thought the contract in rejecting the demand for a best to secure a reasonable settle was

established, and he gave national pool. But this demand meat of the points at issue in the judgment for the plaintifs for & is the essential principle for present dispute. They bare failed declaration is support of the which the miners are contending, because the Government has contract, the money to be paid to ABSURDITIES AND INJUSTICES deliberately taken its stand on Mrs. Hudson through the life

Why is a national pool neces the side of the owners. They time of Mr. Richardson, the first sary? The Times, in its leading know well that they are placed in Payment to be in February. He article. dealing with the pro-a very unfavourable position, Rave judgment for £600 arrears posals of the Government and for resistance even to the to February 24th, 1921, with costs. the ownes, clearly states the most unfair demands; but, what-

A stay of execution was case for it. It speaks of the over their position may be, they granted. palpable absurdity and injustice have no alternative but to stand of a scheme by which some men out with such strength as they

in favoured districts-would possess, and to appeal to all TOO PALE TO BE PRETTY, actually get an advance in 'wages workers and to the whole people! at the present time, while others to recognise that they have done doing precisely the same work their best for peace, and that, would have to submitt to despite all their efforts, they are reduction atmixed by everyone faced row with essentially the to be excessive.“ Without a same demands as were made of national pool such, absurdities them when they were first looked charm. It is no more true than and injustices are inevitable. lout by the owners.

that dark lines under your eyes 6 What, then, is meant by this: They are being asked to allow make them shine more brightly. national pool?

their methods of Dational The passing glance that you The miners are not asking for negotiation to be destroyed, and notice directed at you is not one! a pooling of the profits of all colto accept reductions in wages of admiration: it is, on the con- fieries in such a way that the which would bring them down in trary, more likely to be one of rich or well managed colliery many districts to far less than sympathy for the weakness re would have no advantage over their pre-war standard of living.vealed by your pallor and dull, the poor or badly-managed col-In loyalty to their wives and complexion. liery. They are asking that alfamilies and to the workers in

To be pale is no longer the levy should be made for each ton jother industries, they have no fashion: to be languid is of coal extracted in every colliery, choice but to refuse. good and bad alike, and that this levy should be paid into a nation- al pool, whien would then be used

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By far the greatest part of the sum paid into the national pool:

In the King's Beach Division, the pure, rich blood of health. would come out of the miners' London, Captain

How different she appears from Thomas Herbert Hudson. who

her ailing sisters, whose aching) WES wages: for. according general principle agreed on be referred to as a Cheshire land-limbs and weak backs make them tween the owners and the miners, owner living at Farabam, and pale and dejected! Anaemia is the level of wages would be de-his wife sued the wife's parents. the cause of so much suffering termined by dividing the surplus Major R. A. Richardson, of among young women that it can available in the industry, after all Warwick, and Mrs. Richardson.not be too widely known that Dr. production costs had been met, with regard to an agreement

Plaintiffs asked for a declaration Williams' pink pills have trans- formed thousands of delicate in proportions to be agreed as be-made at the time of Mr. Hudson's anemic invalids into happy

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proposed levy would rank as a engagement to the effect that the healthy women. These pills put cast of production, and would be defendants should allow a certain new blood into the veins, and deducted before the sum available sum per year to Mrs. Hudson as for division as wages and profits

was ascertained.

As miners' wages stand in the ratio of about 80 per cent, to total costs of production, it is clear that by far the greatest part of the levy paid to the pool would come directly out of the wages of the miners.

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When Captain Hudson proposed rosy cheeks and brightness. in to defendants' daughter in 1913 Place of weakness, prostrating and the settlements were discuss headaches and a wretched state. ed. Major Richardson. said of half-health.

What this means to great num- counsel, thought that Captain Hudson shoull settle £600 a year bers of women of all ages in ex. on the lady, and be and his wife Plained by Miss Edith Cantor, of would be prepared to mak& dress 85. Roding Road, Clapton, Lon- awwance of £125 to £150 & year. don who recently stated:-- "A DIRECT STIMULUS." The dress allowance did not When, some time ago, I was In face of this fact it is appear in the contract, plantiffs attacked by anaemia my appetite ridiculous for the owners and for relying on the expressed intention failed, and I got very pale. The the Government, to contend that to pay.

least exertion left me breathless. the imposing of such a levy Correspondence on the subject I became listless and depressed. would be destructive of efficiency took place the following year, and and suffered periodically from and incentive to production in defendants' solicitors then wrote severe abdominal pains. the industry. It would rather to say that the money would be

"Month after month went by act as a direct stimulus to both paid "provided the circumstances without any improvement. In owners and miners to do their of Major Richardson permitted, fact, although I consulted doctors best; since, under this system at and that it was a purely voluntary and took their medicine, I grad least as much as now, the amount matter.

ually grew worse, and became Available for division as wagesbr In further letters, written while mure worried and disheartened, profits would depend upon the Mr. Hudson was a prisoner of

Eventually a friend advised way in which the pits were war in Germany, Major Rich. me to take Dr. Williams pink administered and the character of ardson insisted that the promise pills, and I decided to try them. the work done. Moreover, under was conditional. that there was After one bottle there was some YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM. would have a direct interest in that the allowance would be made treatment:

it miners as well as the owners no definite understanding, and improvement, so I continued the making the whole industry as if circumstances permitted and "I soon began to get my ap- JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the

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they thought it proper to do so. petite back; the listlessness dis- nost digestive foal for Infants which keeps good in qually during ment persist in contending that the plaintiffs were entitled to fatigued after exertion.

The owners and the Govern-A declaration was claimed that appeared, and I became less Hot Weather; (2) LACTOSE (Milk Sugar) for sweatening the foods the creation of a pool on these or £100 a year, and judgment was cheeks lost their pallor, and I felt My of Infants and Drapeptics: (3) MILFORD-MCGRATH FLUID on any other lines is "impractic-asked for in respect of INSECTICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fleas, Mosquito99,

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