The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-12
LABOR CRISIS IN
 BRITAIN APPEARS
 ID HAVE PASSED
Contentious of Both the Miners and Mine Owners In Hands of Premier--Meet
 Again Today
By Associated Press

LOndOns Aprli ll--InS respective contentious of the mine owners and striking miners are now in the hands of the prime minister, who is to take them under SAvisement and meet the representatives of the two sides in the coal dispute tomorrow.
 The conference of the owners and miners, with government officials par ticipating. met at the board of trade this morning, and at the request of the premier submitted at the afternoon session exhaustive statements of their cases, which MT. Lloyd George has arranged to discuss with them sep arately. meeting the mine owners at II o'clock in the morning and the miners at l2;3o. after which the joint conference will be resumed.
 The prospects, therefore, are favor able, although it is stiIi too early to say that the crisis has been averted. The mire owners, even # they were willing to make new wage proposals, today were unprepared with. any con crete scheme. and the present indi- cations are that the conference pro- ceedings will be protracted
 LONG SESSION HELD An official statement was issued an- norncing that the prime minister had presided at the afternoon session, which lasted from o'clock until nearly g. There were present also Sir Robert s Horne, chancellor of the exchequer: T. J. MacNamara, labor minister, and William Brace, minister of mines.
 Evan Williams made a long state ment of their case and Frank Hodges an equally long statement of the min CTS case The premier then expressed desire to have an opportunity oj perusing the statements, and it wat mutually agreed that no report of the respective statements should be pub lished in the meantime. The premier added that he desired to have an op- portunity of meeting the respective parties separately, preliminary to fur ther joint meeting. This was agreed to and the meeting for tomorrow was ar : ranged.
 It is significant that, although in recent phases of the trouble, the gov ernment has taken the attitude that now the industry has been taken out of government control. it was a mat ter solely between the mine owners and miners, the premier himself pre< sided over the conference.
 INANCLAL AID LIKELY
 The presence of the chancellor of the exchequer especially gave color to the reports that the government con- templates affording temporary finafi- cial assistance to meet exceptional circumstances of poor yielding mines being unable to afford wages to pro- vide a decent standard of living.
 This was, in fact, indicated by the premier himself at the morning sit ting in the course of his statement on the governments position, when he cotI <1&. ar,,r 1e,r,% xla grant any permanent contribution to maintain the industry out of taxes.
 The premier showed anxiety to ex- pedite the work of the conference. The mine owners today wanted an ad- journment until tomorrow to prepare their statement, but MT. Lloyd George insisted that the conference reassem- ble at o'clock. .
 According to some unofficial reports, the government will refuse even this temporary assistance unless the min- CTS on. their part abandon. their claim Tor a settlement of the wages dis pute on a national basis. such na- tional basis not necessarily meaning uniform rates to pay in the different district. but insuring universal minimum living wage As it is be- leved the miners will insist upon a national settlement, it would seer premature to predict a peaceful ont. come of the sconference and. in i, inc meantime the triple alliance is noi withdrawing it's strike notices.
 MANIFESTO ISSUED
 Tho Triple Alliance tonight issued a manifesto setting forth it's case in min. ute detail for firmly supporting the miners in resisting "the monstrous pry- posals of the mine owners and defend ing the standard of living or the whole working class and the vital trade union roLey of national wage agreemenfs': l The manifesto planes the prime minis stt> and the government for the whole tre.s ble and protests in the strongest :ant age against calling upJa the rc- q -s e and t'the governments odious cx- pcG ient of forming a voluntary force as m instrument against organizei labor. whereby tho government iigh. ..y assumed the ltepohsRiiity af provoking blcodsaed aal citiI ysr.,a,s n 7. \ C. I. Tramp. president of the National EUn3on 'Qf Railwaymen, alss. issued 2 mahif4stb warning the railwayfnen that they may be treated as the miners have already been ztreated when the railways come to sbe taken out of government control text August.
 Belasco Has Pneumonia
 Hy Associated Press
 New York A prU 11-David Bella sen