3 JANUARY 1931, page 5

The National Board On Tuesday .proposed That The Maximum...

hours in a fortnight should be worked, but that the eight-hour day should be shortened.. The miners, according to this plan, would at least recover their ideal of a regular six......

It Had Been Hoped That The Device Of The Spread-over

—which was introduced into the Mines - Act by the House of Lords and. turned out to be a godsend—would tide over several awkward- weeks or months. There was a fair hope that......

The Crucial Dispute Is In South Wales, Where, When We

write on Thursday, a stoppage seems to be inevitable. If there should not be a quick settlement the next step in logic would be an extension of the dispute to Scotland and then,......

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News Of The Week

The Coal Dispute disorders of the - coal mining industry have several 1. times driven the public to exasperation and the public is not far from that state of mind now. The issue......