... bout of those who entered the mines since the outbreak of war. It by no means follows that the men who voted against the Down Tools policy are in favour of an indefinite continuance the war. Regarding the combout of mines and the generpl question of ...

... REAL MAN-POWER Conference If miner—mine. • If you’re weaver—weave. If you’re poet—buy spade; But whatever you do—don’t IT was a minor poet who wrote the above, but it expresses the miners’ attitude: they not plead, they act. That the National Conference ...

... die question, are on the point taking drastic action for the maintenance of the pledges given. Other industries, notably the mines, are in a state of profound unrest, and the example of Russia has created strong undercurrent revolutionary feeling. The Government ...

... been saying that it would be easy to comb at least 100,000 miners out of the mines. The Ministry of Munitions, on the other hand, states that, in view of the shortage of mine labour, every economy in the consumption of coal must be exercised. We do not ...

... membership of the Federation on the question of accepting or rejecting the Government’s proposal to comb out 50,000 men from the mines, and use the machinery of the Federation for this purpose. The ballot said to be likely to heavily against the Government, ...

... have been in trouble several times over comb-out proposals, ajjreeinj; finally to the removal of men who have entered the mines during the war. They are now being asked by Sir Auckland to make further concessions. The Miners’ bederation has taken the ...

... their dooms funds, which now stand at . . . £lBO,OOO. It a good record, but look forward to the time when As for the mines, our chief anxiety to understand exactly what was there wUI one Union for the engineering and industry the quarrel between ...

... issue. An announcement in the tell* that the Government has decided proceed once with the combing out of 50,0U0 men from the mines, and ha* informed Mr. Thomas Ashton, the secretary of the Miners’ Federation, of its intention. the face of it this would seem ...

... from men who do not keep good time. Last week attempt was made both secure general comb-out of men who have entered the mines during the past year, and to apply the principle of cancelling urtlfiieius On the ground of absenteeism to miners. Neither ...

... it l)e that our (iovornmont not believe in the principle of no annexations, no indemnities, and the rigid of nations deter- mine their own destinies? SKLF-DKTKKMI NATION Of course, our Government does not believe in these things. If it did, it would scrap ...

... engaged in necessary occupations were, according to the 1911 census, as under: Agriculture Engineering, metals, &c Transport Mining Textiles Government and municipal and sanitary engineers 1,140,000 1,477,000 1.399.000 1,049,000 571.U00 248,000 102.000 5 ...

... profiteering, and industrial conscription. Secondly, the Govern* moot is attempting a new comb-out the railways and in the mines. The statement in the Press that N.U.R. has agreed to this is, we are informed, false. They have not agreed, and vigorous protests ...