New-York tribune., 1921-04-09

number will bring the total, together
with those persons thrown out of en-
ployment incidentally, far above the
5000 600 mark
serious detection in the ranks of
the miners is reported. The National
Association of Collery Deputies, which
is strong in the Midlands. has decided
10 send the safety men back to the
pits to prevent their being flooded.
Branches of the miners union in
Nottinghamshire and Statfordshire al
ready have begun negotiations with the
mine owners. Elsewhere the strikers
front is unbroken as the second week
of the deadlock is entered.
The decision of the Triple Alliance
came after the miners representatives
had announced that they could not
meet Lloyd George on the conditions
that he laid down. 1t WAS stronger
than the equivocal pronouncements of
yesterday and Wednesday. Lloyd
George had agreed to withdraw his de-
mand that the return of the safety
men to the mines should precedc all
negotiations and to meet the miners
and to discuss this question before the
matter of wages was considered at all.
The miners refused this concession,
asserting that they were unwilling to
20 into q conference in which the stip-
ulation had been laid down that the
question of safety men should be dis
cussed first. The Premier held that
the safety of the mines was fundamen-
tai and was q primary consideration.
The Premier had been so confident
that he could effect an arrangement
that would forestall general walk
out and perhaps bring the miners to
terms, that he had assembled the mine
owners at the Offices of the Board
of Trade ready to discuss a settlement
They remained there until the middle
of the afternoon before they learned
that the miners would not send
representatives.
Air Ministry Seeks Recruits
Tonight the War Office directed all
members of the army reserve forces,
except those in Ireland and members of
the civil police. to report at concentra-
tion points at once without waiting for
official notification OF their call. Post
ers are being prepared appealing to all
male citizens capable of bearing arms
to report at the nearest recruiting
branch of the War Office for temporary
military service not exceeding ninety
days. The Air Ministry also sent out
an appeal to demobilized officers, urging
them to report to the director of the
air personnel
The situation is expected to develop
into some thing like that existing at the
time of the French railroad strike last
year. Many railroad men who struck
were members Of the reserve army. and
were promptly ordered back to duty as
soldier strike breakers. A large num-
her of members of the Triple Alliance
who saw service in the war will per
haps he called upon to choose between
the unions and the government
Each of the railroads, it was an
nounced this evening, will make its
own ARA ngements for handling voun-
teers and coping with transportation
ddlfficulties on its system as they arise
However, as government control Of the
roads has not ended, the Cabinet is
still expected to supervise the meas
ures taken in dealing with the strike
The territorial force, which has been
augmented steadily in the last few
months, has not been called to the
colors, but members of it are invited
TO join the new emergency forces The
exact number of men that will be
placed in active service as a result of
the mobilization moves is difficult to
compute, as the strength of the armed
forces in Ireland is doubtful 1t is ex-
pected, however, that the government
has 100000 men to draw on from Ireland
and as many regulars here. In addi-
tion, there are the reserves There are
$4,000 officers and men of the navy
who are now in active service All
army and navy leaves were stopped
several days ago, so that mobilization
should be effected quickly.
Volunteers to Run Roads
Although these emergency forces are
being brought together solely for the
purpose OF assisting the police of the
country, other volunteers will be called
for to man the mine pumps and run
busses, railroads, street cars, tubes and
similar services. The government now
Is preparing list of recruiting places
which will be published in the
morning
The last strike in which volunteers
we're called for was in 1919, and much
crippled services were maintained
then while the walk-out continued The
triple alliance threatened to call
strike last fall when the miners struck,
but negotiations looking toward a set
tiement began just in time to permit
the cancellation of strike notices that
already had been sent out.
The whole Triple Alliance has never
gone out on strike since it's formation
IN 1915 by Robert Smillie. former
president of the Miners Federation,
who resigned that Office a few months
ago. IN the present crisis the Triple
Alliance leaders are being influenced by
~ne fear that the wage cuts, now in
volved in the miners controversy, NAV
soon be extended to all industries. The
transport workers now face an immedi-
ate reduction of wages, and the railway
men fear that when the carriers revert
to private ownership in August they
Will face the situation then that the
miners are in now.
More Negotiation Seen
The decision of the alliance to strike
nHd th- governments stern counter
measures will join the issue more ir
revocably, but the belief is widely ex-
pressed that some sort of negotiation
Will be carried on over the weekend
The Great Western Railroad sought -
aid the situation and allay the fears of
It's workers by assuring them that it
does not contemplate cutting thejr
wages in August without first consult
ing fully with all employees, but this
announcement apparently had no effect
on the men.
Dispatches from all parts of the
united Kingdom indicate that most of
the mines are not suffering seriously
from flooding. Dispatches from Scot
iand, however, say that 80 per cent of
the pits there, including those at Fife.
from which the fleets coal supply
comes, Will be ruined if they 90 un-
pumped another week
The value of coal shipped from Great
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