: We earnestly desire to see both - colliery companies and Miners
depute new- negotiators,' who will not •consider :whether they are coming to a settlement_ • or not, but will simply come together determined to' decide what the settlement shall be. They would also, in our opinion, be wise to take the Royal Commission's Report as an agreed basis of discussion. The present representatives have for so many months talked or shouted or sulked that they are " stale." It is not disloyalty to your leaders to say, " You have done your best ; you can do no more." We want to see negotiators who are not committed irretrievably to this cry or policy, to that action or refusal, and, so to speak, tied up into knots which neither they nor anyone 'else can unravel. We therefore beg the Coal Owners' Association and the Miners' Federation to consider very seriously whether new representation is not the only chance for themselves and for the country.
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