The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-06-27 00:00:00

which at these moeCng will rile. Carren4
-ents t ference that there w i.
im tort •. nge. imnmasters are
.I,y CRII sell under the
wily require, until it supply
0 i ['onto:timing at less money than
no N ,be paid for it. And until the collie: s
r turn to work a supply on the needed terms
'-; impossible. That they will have returned
',..fore the quarterly meetings commence, 0,
i•ideed that there will be a prospect of their
Attuning at an early subsequent date. seems
unlikely, though some masters this after-
noon spoke of a month hence being the end
.if the strike. .1-1, Executive of the Miners'
I 'llion have toil off the pre: lama and vim-
president, together with another influential
union officer( Mr. W. Pickard), of the
Lancashire distriet, to endeavour to make
peace with the employers, and an interview
is likely to lie sought. There is no doubt
that the union would Ix, only too happy te
be relieved of the responsibility of having
to find the requisite funds for the strike
hands; awl that, therefore, if the mast ei
would abate a litt'e of their demand art
arrangement mie.! t b ci me to by which
work would be resumed. How, however.
this can be done on orders for iron secured
on terms to which alone consumers appear
willing to submit, is a problem which we are
incapable of solving. The employers know
on what terms they can get,orders, and they
also know what it will cost them to execub
those orders. The probabilities are not ie
favor of any terms being a4reed to by then.
short of the acceptance by the colliers of the
full terms of the notices which have been
served upon them, unleo the masters may
be ready to promise something in respect o*i
the time during which no further notice
shall be given. Up to this afternoon ne
application for an interview had reached the
masters, who are likely to be consulted
When the application is made we have to
doubt whenever that it will be conceded.
whoever may be the persons making it
Much has lately been said in pnblie abon t a
gentleman who occupies a prominent positiot
in connection with the Masters' Association
To our knowledge much that has been said
is on merited. If the men, either union
agents, had to deal with that gentleman
alone they would have much less difficulty
' in coming to terms than t hey nom, experience
in dealing with him as a member of an asso-
ciation, or as honorary officer of it. Inorder
to make such a settlement as may be of
benefit to the men and to the trade, it would
be welt that all persons who are likely to
take part in it should approach the question
with mines free from a bias w ich is with-
out justification in the facts of the case: and
above all, that in public utterances express-
ions should not be used which are likely to
embitter existing feelings. At present the
masters who have any of their colliers at
work are extracting as ranch, and some of
them more, coal from their pits than they
require. Prices for all but the A I iron were
iinoted very low this afternoon. Excepting
for sheets few orders were distributed at any
price. Lower quotatiens than now prevail
would seem unlikely to be quoted in all but
the highest kinds, even after the colliers
have resumed.