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Meeting of the Conciliation Board. The Wages Question. The Reduction Opposed. toiu'lr ^(n'th Wales and Monmouthshire no,,n la,"on Board met on Monday after- Plap Coal-owners' Office, Park e'iiDir>\ to discuss the claim of the ill waa a re(luction of 3f per cent. Mr rS anc' from September 1st next, sicfp Davis presided on the owners' nWs a'\ W- Brace on the work- his ii s: > Mabo<n being absent owing to Mi les,s' owiJL'Davis, in presenting the audjf", Ca,'S(:' Produced the report of the May lowing that for the months of °f crv, |llri ,11Jle tlie average selling price was lis. 5jd. per ton, or ?!ow the lis. lOd. per ton which, I'eca f fWar<^ Sir David Dale, could (>f 30 if as equivalent, to a wage rate Hot fner+^n^ an<^ ai'gu°d that if it were *he enf i 10 existence of the minimum a st-ili ?' yers would be entitled to claim cent i gfr ''eduction than the per In' if • ,or- frliinu l1? t-i-s<ussioi) which followed, in T t>. A. Onions. Mr. T. Evans, Mr. 8an ?rds> MP-> Mr. D. Watts Mor- the'a i others took part on behalf of "U'li am'u.' it was argued that the claim 8 n°t Justified in making the "e.coaI exports during the three ''icrei.f e,u-11S July showed a substantial ln°'ith 6 °V(3r tho.se of the preceding three accoi,Jf aud ^Ie 0W,H;rs were taking no coa] °f the enhanced value of small )w',a factor which thev considpi'pd Viarl Mic}1;ie.(>u fully appreciated even by Sir e^airrn Hicks-Beach, the independent PrlCe 1 au- When the present cutting 0|' W'U!t ure known as the standard Coal Were fixed in December, 1879, small of no value. It was Miaj. 1 Into the gob below ground, and staclj Tas brought to the surface was sinalj Since then the selling price of to 7^ Coai had ranged from 3s. per ton stood' even to 8s. per ton, and now Wiilg. ":0tween 6s. and 7s., the benefit In IeaPed exclusively by the owners. i tiojj -e,p'v- the owners took up the posi- rp, that when average selling prices Cent ■ s- lOd. (equivalent to the 30 per the Illlbillluni), this must be regarded as f%. T\ fact'H; in determining the wage HllJ' o+l Wor^ir|eu had no right to bring iV()i'kiriler ^actoivs into the argument. The '1' strongly dissented from this fr&re' taf|flitting, however, that once wages ^ot }y to the minimum they would see^ an a(Ivance -so long aVe1.fl lnS prices remained at or below an °f Us. lOd. per ton. But, as yet, It hVVe'e n°t reduced to the minimum. r'Qij|(| evident that no agreement l'efei, ,.e effected, and it was decided to to1,15 t niatter to the independent chair- ''idL ° wiU meet the Board on either <« Saturday. ^eHda other matters were on the ^0%? dispute at Messrs. the Penrikyber sH-tie Jly's Colliery in regard to the -eajH eilt of a price list for the new tr^as referred to Messrs. Williams It PPell. arranged that Mr. Winston o°t>ba llla^e further inquiry into the of 16 workmen in the Big Vein at the Tirpentwys Colliery as the lt ofnotices given by the men on the y- ."gfa Regard to the question of instruct- r° e^r ^outh Wales Anthracite Company iQf'in th« agreement of March r^'d t. III regard to the rates to be ,+ keii- Ynyscedwyn u i i solved that the owners ij^Ked to report further. settlement of the dispute at the Ofgar Iron and Coal Company's Whit- %Lh,No. 1 Colliery was deferred for the bailee of Mr. E. M. Hann. Official Report. Vrl^t^g of the Joint Conciliation Stl }vas held at the offices of the Mon- and South Wales Coalowners' 4N. i01' Cardiff, on Monday after- li^pio-Vo V Davis presided over the klace ;I'SJ, representatives, and Mr. W. m 'n, ? absence of Mr. W. Abraham, °<^Pied a similar position over _the The c s '"epresentatives. ti6 prof^ business for consideration was h es th +Sa °t the owners' representa- w 'ediir.9 ] th<i general wage rate should to the extent of per cent., &). to wage rate at the minimum of iiv°UluJs f H^l(>ve the- 1879 standard, the ljJ;agQ .uch proposal being that the b fi, eihng price of large coal was i^icl Us- lOd. per ton fixed by Sir qtd i&iiJ Bait., as equivalent to the b 11 llrn wage rate. ^5- Davis stated the case on L?11' arini- e. owners and in support of 0f V^tiqn. Mr. Brace replied on oti j| ?he workmen's representatives, tho found that an agreement 'si"le, it was resolved to call in ^l°vic]prf Michael Hicks-Beach, joAn for in the agreement. had been received by the ai'i|es from Sir Michael that in tlie his being repuired he would the in.^hig to be held on Friday a t,0ih inst. Subsequently, how- to ^^el e?ram was despatched to Sir W? n3Pp(.^Ulg him if possible to agree Niit0, ^fgheing held on Saturday a nc he convenience of several fv f^-th Boai'd' At- ^omniunication was received Hlj 6 had 6* Hicks-Beach intimating btisi? undertaken some important i which would necessitate ^°«sih] il? Eugland about- the time Qf his services as independent iVJ^' in -\re might be required, j -November next, and that Kbi'^Wp-p ^'°uld not be in a position thai- functions of chairman iHi] the r_ Period. It was resolved to a 6 onTlns!^eration of the matter tunity had been found at Va> nSJ°ehe held on Friday or „ ^Drvv, t°r conferring with Sir StS- wn&es*ct, AW-ed tha+ ,YePPell and Evan Thomas at +1, 51 had settled the cartage ho Harris Bargoed Abernant Ti Wales and John Thomas \Nt 0f hat they had arrived at a v ^Tort.V« AT house coal question at 's Navigation Collieries.

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