Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-26 | Page 2 | British Coal Crisis Passes

BRITISH COAL ' GRISIPASSES Impending Strike of 250,-000 250,-000 Miners Is Averted at Conference. LONDOX, July Co. (By the Associated Associ-ated Press.) The strike of approximately approxi-mately a quarter of a million men in the coal mines, that threatened to paralyze para-lyze many industries, was settled today. An official report, issued after a conference con-ference held today between Premier Lloyd George and the executive body of the miners' federation, said an agreement had been reached and that the principles laid down by the government gov-ernment in its proposition hud been adopted. Tho frovernment proposition, based on the interim report of tho Sankey Coal commission, that the reduction of output through reduced hours would bs less than lu per cent, afforded a government gov-ernment assurance that pieceworkers should not suffer any loss in earnings, and that the piece rates would be increased in-creased by an amount, which, on the average, was found necessary to correspond cor-respond with the 10 per cent reduction in hours. In order to carry out this agreement, says the report, it was necessary to fix a definite average- of reduction in working work-ing time resulting from the introduction introduc-tion of the seven-hour day, and after an examination of the figures it was decided to accept forty-seven minutes as the basis for this calculation. Before today's conference began it was understood that the miners' federation federa-tion officials had accepted the principle of the government's offer for the settlement set-tlement of the Yorkshire dispute. Their conference with tho premier began be-gan early this afternoon. Herbert Smith, leader of tho Yorkshire York-shire miners, has kept aloof from all the negotiations, and it is not yet certain cer-tain that -he will accept the settlement.