6 NOVEMBER 1920, Page 2

In announcing the result of the negotiations in the House

of Commons on Thursday week, Sir Robert Home explained that the Government had sought to obtain increased output for any Increase in wages, and also to devise an automatic method of determining the increase for each month of the period ending with March next. As the September quarter had yielded a larger output than the Juno quarter, it was thought that the miners were entitled to an additional shilling a day at least. The coal exports would be valued at the prices ruling in the September quarter. Sir Robert Home emphasized the fact that the coal-owners would have as much interest as the miners In producing more coal, and that this was evidence of a new spirit of harmony in the coal industry.