The result of the ballet of the miners on the
Government's offer of an increase of twenty per cent. in wages was announced on Thursday. There was a majority of sixty-five thousand in favour of accepting the terms. The decision is a severe blow to the extreme Syndicaliste, who unfortunately have dominated the Executive of the Miners' Federation. Their stronghold in South Wales, -the most prosperous and most discontented of All the mining districts, voted by two to one against the Government offer. Lancashire, despite its moderate leaders, was also hostile to compromise. But Yorkshire, Northumberland and Durham, and the Midlands turned the scale in favour of peace. Our coal will be dearer, but we shall be spared the strike for which the extremists were earnestly striving, in furtherance of their revolutionary programme.
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