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'mS?S MEFH!? AT J YSTALYFERA. j t;. _?_ i •"Aritipracite Agent 4-n-New I ""il" no" âree1.'l.nt I Vt. A g reement. | FOMATIGX OF *INIERS, COU" Th-o was a-In rase t&trcidance "it a ir.oetinTt of Miytr. of Tst^yfera. (Cwta- 'twrch., and Godr-eVisrarg Districts hàd on Saturday f«-cs*itrg tte the Vestry, Y«talyi'em. waSil sowsai •rriHirers of local ":r-ir't-t and im}xvvt- a nc.- Mr W. H. Jeffreys (Gihv* •! <l'»"y), • premfed, was sriu^-wthM &y Mr U. D. j Morgan, J.P. of .+-,he An- j t'iracite Disfcri" 'Councillor :Joeeph ( Thomas (eh^kw? hzhor, f'arreni ÜÙi- lieryj., and Mr /itv-tli #0wss• (orgari-i*?i\ Soti-t'h "Wales .wrs' 'F^dera-fion':) j Th-s Chairman chscnfttf that Mr. Morgan was prsf t> ~t evening to »|M?a.k to them on the nor/ wi, -g-nm- memra. He (tl^v^akt^, felt tliai- it wr.s (tHe to the great work of xhe j TnitMrs "loaders t-hoy had h«en i rhie to obtain «.l th-oy 'hncl obtained by | "he -new agreeuMfnt, anil to get what wps -r^sllv jiisti'tj'to them The--collier was the hack ho:<r- of insistry to-day, HlJd all lie got. (Fitar. | hearl. The war Tn Eurose w{)ufclt'>TId or the war "V* tweeii capital laflxntr would still oou. and for ?'?-t t?wy wound $ul! have- to be. nr>?-jVE/»e,3.(Hear, --h«aT). In pas.?ns the ),ru('rrmap::ud a. tr?tr? "+o -fhe l*.fe ax*cf w'wrk -of "Mr J. 'Kclr Har?Tt-, M.P.. ??' })T'op???d a votc?of <'onr)?ic'aco wth t? )d;ttin,s {\f t !e d e ee S'{:ií I e.ad <■ r. Mr rn secondiing, said that altlnnrgh 'Mr Hrarrlie TO irw<rr f)v<i j^liuence would! live in *"vhe mindA #5 'Lalxjur for many yen.r.s to come. •«, -<iv,aohitior> -carrie ia silene-c. yri AN AN'D 'WELS^-I COAL- 1 ()\Y:S,E2L-S. ).{:J .D. partly in W(""I and uavrlf in EnglVsh, said ho d< to iiasofK-fltte hims»lf with >\ I :1:1.1 beta .««kkI concermng the •latc Mr-BOei-r Hardie -who had worked and .wri'Ved m-nc.h rn of Labour. Proceeding aThple to the ;"I"i" 'iieiit, Mr Morgan sakl the WV; cthe mast dift- iiilr t<) e ¡ i !ip,f he knolHl or heard of, S.:t i ver hænmnTe. difflClilt 111.1 t l»e present vear. The j never won a single r'.rht i' ::m for which they had T)nt !)r»d t-: ♦u'rht, and in thelat?r <<i? y'i.it !? bad rccptv?-d lit --q ^x:;cu- ir-- T «>• rati on- pressure hack- <? ???fvorcment. Even then. tJy v;ot their rights by in- were t -i-> | it- The first came from V>- t? v! ■" The second from Rnnciwam and I'm? G-eorfre, «-wi the tTiird from Mr "jK?r.; ;:o^;i. the obtaining of which j thy-- ■,( -<- h'-»ngiH to the ver^e of a flll"; tIt would be rc- tne.'i!'• r ■1 ■ ttto owners offered t- a war bonus to •i>? end t' f war when negotiations I! for in-ero bein,, opened --t rnerr's action in r- f'i.?pg ?'? f'?-- ?'nd ?e?n .fuFy ?!sti- fí d by th.? ('?' <p"?!S they had %inr-c I. <'bta?n?<' <' '?\- !!?d made big en- deavours to -t liew tnirimum for #surfaceme.->, injd h"d succeeded in ob- taining at •>J. o<>r d > v minim/um (3s.4d. plus 50 per rent ) and aU fuirther percentages. Th's Y." a considerable advance, as roanv of them wk-11 knew. H" thought the. terms referred to ought to make all surfacemen staunch trad ? unionists (h?ar, hear and M)- plause). They had had trouble with tb?m before in not cnntributing to the F?doration. but a? a rMult of the new terms obtained through the Federation, they ough to he very loyal to. t-he ''lo»»al lodges. Tte -new .terms were to foe subject, not I the Änthra- I cite b<ot • 5-0 t li(-, full ocmincld percent- I ages. and in that respect, ithti Anthra- cite D?'r:'iot had gairK.nl raoro t,!ia,n t any other i)alf. the (-o?.!?<d (hear, hear). i THE HON 1 S TT KN. Coiini.uing, Mr Morgan saud that in j the »»? when the qu>c«tion of r«inew- ing aigaseements had hsxm..to the fore. they had bad to -t ht:@.w overboard several nmi-ters they decided to settle. Among them was the matter of the bonus iurn. In the last agreement, howevev. their cla ims, though not fully conceded, had been -t-ft a large extent raot.nd the tcrttu had obtained would i-emove ccrtari anomalies. In a certain, distrkt ho had in mind., there were three collieries. All had l»een-. waving the lx>mts annn on the one and ane-fifth principk, another wsia payiag: six for five worked, and the !).aN-i g six if -(, (- I an d l other, the largest of the thice, did not pay at all. Tlii-s was a meaIlt; of creating <1 inherit ion Itween the men in the district, as well as acting unfairly to the men at the colliery where it was not paid. It was. alsy. -unfair as be- tween Company and Company. In the new agreement, however, all com- panies had to pay to all workmen, surface and under^ivnind. afternoon *hi £ i ¡Vi; well as night 'shift. (Hear, hoar and applause). The speaker went on to explain how tl»e bonus turn would operate at the week-ends. All time worked after Friday afternoon and Ki.ght shifts was to b<^ regarded overtime, and though not in the agreement it was verbally undeH-.stood between the owners and agents that afrer Friday niglit-d shifts were to be j six hHnm, Where men worktxl eight hours tnl Sundav pveniagfi in future, and were not, paid extra, they were e^pecte-d to*-claim timt and a. hn-If. If the colliery was only working;, say four tii-rn»« per week, under trn new agree- menr men engaged on thf, afternoo-n ;<nd tiig'ht sdlifts he T}3id on the i principle of the one and one-ufth for padl mrn worked. This was the i essential difference bf-tween t-he terms of tlui mix turn-, for five pmicipk1. No grade wa-s -to be ex^HX-ted from this J'ule. They knew the difficulty that Ila-,I regarding (V.iginomeu, stokers, and the mechanic- al skiffs iu the past. Under fonner | agre&»i**ii'« s. r hfC grades bad always j licen oxoi-upted from the provisions of the agrement. but the newer document had been made wide enough J to inelufe those craftKnien and mechanical workers who were mem- J fhers of the same organisation, -as minert.. In this res^cf. the engine- j men. stokers, etc.. had don^ remark- I rfhlv well Ikv the new agreenient. As I a rifle they worked three shifts at the cAlliorios, and two out of the three now became .ntilpd to the bonus tarn, j .R?a-tuvel?, they ga.)n<?d more th?an I 3.nv other ?r:n'tQ of worker in the c*ial- HAUIiirmS- POSITION. I In i I.- 's locality Mr 'Morgan pointed t out, the hauliers- W night got- as much as the hauliers by day, but in some districts they were paid less by .night | than by day, hut limv they had secured j full pay for the. night haulier (hear. 1j j hear), as well as the bonus, turn. i ilega.rdir.>g the new standard, they elairned this because the old one was J get-ting out of date. Already they I had had a considerable increase, and --it the next audit he believed they won?.} be entitled to a further one (hear, hear). The new standard was supposed to be established without any actual change in wages, but the An- thracite District owners had so ad- justed the matter as to gain a few pence from every workman employed. They knew, of course, of the resol u- tion passed at the District Meeting on the matter. The matter was to be considered at the Conciliation Board j meeting at, Ctrdiff the fo-llctvina. Mon- I day. and they then hoped to have a just settlement. They had now estab- lished a minimum of 10 per cent, on the new standard equal to 15 per cent, on the old standard. He thought they stood to gain especially at the pre- sent bv the removal of the maximum, and for some time to come. Altogether they had now got total percentages of 3614 The 17,1 per cent. wats not a war bonus. It came to them naturally by the increased prices, and had been got I by th", relnontl of the maximum. ANTHRACITE FIVE PER CENT. I Regarding the Anthracite demand .j for the recovery of the lot five pr Jr cent, it had been decided to. refer che matter to arbitration. For the Federation, Messrs. James Wi jstone, J.P., C.C.; Thomas R;chst-dr, and Alfred Onions, the three -chief -officers of the South AV-alos Miners' Federa- tion, would sil, and the rwplo'yers would he represented by Messrs. Hugh Bramwoll, Evan Williams, and Thos. Griffit hs. Up to the present, tn.ev had not been able to get the services of an umpire. Judge Llotd Morgan, K.t and Mr Justice Sankey, K.C., had decliijetl to aoc in if'hat- capacity. Whether the Dist rict was going to get the 5 pin* vent, or not- -depended on the tevidenoe 10 he s.ubmitted to this com- mittee. They had 18 witnesses to give evi dence, and a committee of six had c-hosjen to "build up their case to suVm-it to the -committee. The re- suit i-jif this MtnnniMee would decide the nnsait-t-er once awl for all. The Fe<lrration ha? \w1rked hard to estab- lish their case, -a?d they were hopeful tha't their claim would be successful. Hf -ir, hear and applause). Subsequently Mr Morgan answered a m 1 ml ver of questions, put to him by jcembers of tho audience. MR lETH JONES. I Mr .Modi Jones said his remarks would come a natural sequerce to J Mr Morgan's explanation of the new agreement. The question he wanted to a&k was what better would they be in winning reforms and benfits by in- dustrial arts on if they allowed their enemies to filch them away m other (Hear, hear). If the workers were going to win, permanent benefits for themselves and their wives and families, they would have to-do more than organise industrially. They would also have to organise politically. Mr Jones illustrated the injustice to the small owners of the compounding of rates, on the under-rating of col- lieries. and the refusal of the Swan- sea Rural District Council in refusing increases to the Sewage Farm Labour- ors, wlii'lST giving an advance t- the Surveyor. To remedv this sort of t hing they would have tSb send their own representatives to both t-he Par- liamentaiy and local gwernmen; bodies. He hoped the time would come wlten they would have one trade union for the whole of South Wales. He thought the workers of the coal- field lfid learnt the lession that they could not. reasonably expect to get benefits unless they stood up and de- manded them themselves. (Hear, hear). NOT A PRO-GERMAN." Speaicin-g on the sacrifices made by the workmen in the present war, Mr Jones saad: Personally I am not a pro- German. I believe that England, in taking the stem she did take, did the best for herself and for democracy all over te world. (Hear, hear). Con- tinuingthe speaker said he though it deiiended on Labour to stave off con- scription.. More men had to be- got, and rhev would be got either iby the voluntary recruiting efforts of Labour or by compulsion, and he urged that of the two means, the former was much more desirable t-han the latter. (Hear, hear and appfca-use). A vote of thanks to the speakers was proposed hv Mr Wm. Lewis (Gil- wen), seconded by Mr Owen, Tirbaoh, and in responding, Mr Morgan pro- posed a resolution of thanks to the chairman, which Mr Jones seconded. THE MINERS' COUNCIL. 1 After the close of the former meet- ing, a large number remained behind to further consider the matter of form- ing a miners' council for the locality. Mr Jeffreys presided, and Councillor Joseph Thomas explained the steps aJ- ready taken for the formation of the Council. The matter, lie said, arose from the Tarreni Lodge. At recent conference's, they had seen the way in which the locality suffered through lack of unity, whereas delegates from other localities could go -toithe meet- ings with joint mandates. By the action of the Tarreni lodge in sending out circulars to the local lodges, a meeting was held a fortnight- previous, and the matter was discussed there, the delegates being asked to discuss the matter further at their lodige meet- ings and reported on the decision at that gathering. Delegates now roprted that the Betting, Pwllbach, Tirbaoh, Gilwen and Tarreni lodges had decided in the favour of forming a. Council. New Cwmnant and Cambrian Mercantile lodges had not. sent detegates, but it was understood that they also were in .favour of the proposal. On the motion of Mr John Samuel, seconded by Mr Dan Ho wells, it was then formail v decided to form a. Coun- cil for the seven collieries, each lodge to send three delegates to the meet- ings, to be held every Wednesday pr- <H (ling the monthly District Meeting.

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1 C ORRFSPONBEjSCE. ESPERANTO, THE WORLD- LANGUAGE. To the Editor. Sir.—Apropos of the letter dealing with the world-language, Esperanto, by "Arthan" in your last issue, I beg leave to offer a. few words of comment thereon. lit has been my pleasant ex- perience to 100 associated .with the little that has been done in connection with the language in this locality, and greait was my relucta-nce in having partially to sever my connection with Esperanto on the discontinuance of the cla&s, owing to lack of support. However, I have not altogether re- linquished my interest in what I be- lieve will some day become a universal language, doing its allotted share in the spread of human brotherhood throughout tlhe world. Will not the local Education Authorities move in the matter and establish an evening class in the dis- trict- during the coming winter ? Surely a sufficient number of pupils could be found to support the move- ment. Moreover there is now among us an expert in t-be new language in the person of the Rev. W. H. Harries, B.A., B.Lit.t., the popular curate of y SIt f1adgyniÜs P a,1.1Ïsh Church. We are led to expect, that after this war we shall lave in a re-made world; that internationalism will assume a. very different complexi-on. to what it has hitherto ever been. If a lasting and enduring peace is to be established, it. behoves everyone of us who has the cause of universal brotherhood at be-art to arm ourselves not with the weapons of destruction, but with weapons of construction; to fight the common, foe of racial hatred, and eetalbhsh a system of co-operation be- tween all nations. To attain this it is essential, as pointed out by "Arthan" that "a common medium of expression" be found. Esperanto alone solves the problem. Yours truly, LOCAL STUDENT. COAL AND THE WAR, I I "LABRWR NOS" ON DULAIS I VALLEY POSITION. This week the paanphlet "Coal and the War" or the verbatim report of ■ the s}>eeiches delivered at the National Conference of representation of the mining industry at the London Opera House, 29th July, last, is, read with interest by a number of the workmen in the Dulais Valley, altlic-ugh no one was present. But the question is often asked, after all the energy put forth by Cabinet Ministers and others, will it take effect on the life of the n-awon ? Will it stimulate the nation to its sense of duty ? I am sorry to sav that the majority are doubtful whether it will have that effect to any marked degree; and I wish to state in my humble way of thinking the reasons why. One could imagine by reading the daily papers that everybody is doing his duty barring the working man, especially the collier, and Mr. Lloyd George and other mem bers went to the OTierat House that day to appeal to them as friends—I believe for the first time. It is surprising that this Government has not. until now realised the value of the collier to the nation, and I hope that the working man will have sufficient intelligence to realise such as well. aiid that the nation can't goon without him. But, if the Govern- ment has been converted to the im- portance of the miner, I am afraid that he is looked upon by others, from the smallest tradesman to the biggest employer as merely a, profit maker for I them, especially if They are everywhere as they a-i-e. in the Duilais Valley. Men have to work hard during the week, and you will see them on Monday soorning in crowds, by the offices pray- ing to be paid something reasonable for their work, and the answer very often is that the pei-centage is so high that they can't afford allowances: as if t-lte percentage is coming to the men without any standard. Perhaps it would be well for some of our managers to know that the men do not get percentage on the standard only, and do not get it on all standards either. I am convinced that if this Htato of affairs exists everywhere, the great speeches have not converted the employers to any sense of duty towards their country; and as long as the work- ing man has to fight for his very existence, I am afraid that the effort of the Government will have but very little effect. Another unpatriotic- net in the Dulais aVlley struck me while reading Mr Pease's great speed. appealing for economy in the use of coal. He ap- pealed to every consumer. I contend that. every householder is a consumer to some extent, and every hundred- weight saved by the home consumer is a. hundred-weight more on the market to bo exported; and by that it in- creases our real international coin- age." At every colliery through the country there is a rubbish tip, and in some collieries in the Dulais Valley, the tips axe like Snowden. If the out- put of coal exceeds the output of rubbish it must be a fairly good out- put. But mixed with this rubbish there are tons of coal from time to time toeing tipped. The very com- modity that is "life toO the nation in time of war" is thus wasted in this reckless way, and if it happened that a poor woman who had to live without tli, of her husband or of her son would take her bucket, to gather some II of it, then the constable would not be long before being on the scene, and she would be ushered before the magis- trates at Neath, and would not succeed in coming away without having to put tlieli- hands deep inrto her pockets to p,ay the penalty, and in addition be looked upon as a. thief for gathering the very thing' thai is considered our life—thrown awav and wasted. Now the Government appeals not to waste, but their appeals are falling on deaf eat-s as far as some of our employers a,re concerned, and they are backed up by even our magistrates. I con- sider it, therefore, illogical to expect the working classes to respond to their appeals, but I am glad to learn that notwithstanding the unpatriotic acts of our employing class that the work- men are determined to see that victory shall be on our side. Yours, etc., LABRWR NOS. i

AMMAN VALLEY STUDENTS IN THE DARK. The failure of the Carmarthenshire "Education Committee to fulfil its pro- mise of having several schools in the Amman Valley' group well lighted for pur- poses of evening continuation classes gave rise to strong remarks at a meeting 01 the Amman Valley Managers, Air. J. Harris (Irlwyn) presiding. It was in- timated that the committee had request- ed its chairman (Aid. W. N. Jones) to report upon the Manager's recommenda- tion for the installation of electric light at the Tycroes School, but no mention was made of the Saron and Penygroes schools, also included. Mr. Thos. Alorgan protested, remark- ing that the matter was being continually thrown aside by the committee. The min- ing and continuation classes suffered as a result, teachers having to rush about for glasses, wicks, and paraffin for the lamps during the time that should be devoted to instruction., The Chairman said they asked the Education Committee six months ago to consider the advisability of installing electric light at those schools, and, al- though ample time had thus been given them, they were again without light; and yet the electric mains ran quite near the schools. In the end, it was resolved to urge the committee to install dectric light for school purposes without delay .ü n\e Pen- sc h oo ) purposes ".v i t h  Pen- ygroes, lycroes, and Saron schools. I

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