The London correspondent of the Yorkshire Post says that, as
a result of the Prime Minister's remarks in the House of Commons last week, the Council of the Mining Association is considering the possibility of drafting a simplified schedule of wages. This is a most desirable reform, as the methods of paying the miner on various scales, partly in money and partly in perquisites, are so complicated that it is almost impossible to discover what his wages really are. In this respect the mining industry is unlike all others. There are many outside students of mining problems who have studied the wages question for months and have retired baffled. To reduce all local customs to uniformity or simplicity of expression will no doubt be very difficult, but it will be a great help to every- body if wages can be discussed in more intelligible terms when the coal negotiations begin again. * * * * *
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