The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-10-21
issued: 1912-03-12
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note: EIGHT PAGES 50 CENTS A MONTH :assified ads rmmvE^i cent a word y^ VOL. 10 NELSON. B. C. TUESDAY MORNING. MARCH 12, 1912 GETS TO OUIT WORK ilwd Million Workers Are Already Idle ll. (NOTHER ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE |/ant,Sufferingand Immense Loss—Union Funds Are it * Running Low [LONDON, March ll—The National |lnern' Federation unanimously fielded toni-ghit to accept the prime I'lnlster's Invitation to meet the coal J/ners and representatives of the vernment in a round table confer- |'co at which Premier Asquith will ^sido. The acceptance was coupled Ith the reservation thnt thc principle tn minimum wage will bo excluded T.im the discussion. It is understood lit this moans thnt the granting nf Ijmlnimum wngc will he assumed to heen conceded but it does not [ply that the schedule of minimum rates drawn up hy the Miner**' I'dcratlon will not bo dincusjicd. ■The coal owners have not yet nc- Intod the premier's Invitation, They 111 meet tomorrow to decide this lestfon. Even if tho Welsh and the Ij'otch owners stand olonf It Is taken ■ granted that English owners will Icept. The conference will be held ■morrow afternoon but the miners' Ipresentatives are not authorized to Ireo to any diminution of tbo feder- Ijon schedule or to any scheme den.tr ||r with rates without a ballot from i miners. Therefore a settlement of - strike nt the Joint conference cun Ry.yio attained If the owners agree |i accept thc miners' schedule which ■very Improbable. The most hoped Im the conforonce is that Rome basis ingrecment will 1)0 reached for thp ling of a minimum rate which will ■submitted to a ballot of tho miners. Another Weak Yet J'hnt thc strike will continue for at |st another week is now regarded by most optimistic ns Inevitable It |* been practically vu'tuniijityjl thnt coal strike must he ended by l.-eement or Immediate legislation ll bo invoked to bring^hout eompul- fy peace. A time limit for the ne- Plntlons ls demanded on all sides ll Thursday ls expected to see pnr- Inentnry acti…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0384480
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text