The Miners and the Jubilee The South Wales coal-owners have
infused a very welcome note of cordiality into their relations with their employees by the proposal to raise a fund of £50,000 among themselves as a Silver Jubilee celebration, the money to be used for providing pensions for super- annuated miners. The intimation was made in the first instance to the South Wales Miners' Federation, which has responded by voting £20,000 of its own funds for the same purpose. The problem of distress in South Wales is appalling, and must to a large extent be per- manent, but the situation will to some extent be eased if it becomes possible to pension elderly miners at an carlier_ age, than that of their normal retirement without undue.. hardship to themselves.. The mine-owners are warmly to be congratulated on their public-spirited initiative, which it is to be hoped may be followed in other fields. It may very well do something at the. same time to smooth the way for coming negotiations on wages.
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