NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Yorkshire miners are still on strike. A week ago the Government and the Miners' Federation made an agreement concerning piece-rates in all the coalfields ; but Mr. Herbert Smith, the President of the Yorkshire Miners' Federation, declared on Wednesday that the agreement did not bind Yorkshire. The Yorkshire coal-owners attempted to negotiate with him on the application of the formula devised by Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Smillie. But as the formula would give the Yorkshire miner an advance of 1F8 per cent.. in his wages when he had expected at least 14 per cent., Mr. Smith repudiated the agreement. The Miners' Federation is apparently unable to control the Unions of which it is composed. Mr. Smillie is made to seem a less immoderate man than Mr. Smith.
