26 JANUARY 1925
A Peerage is to be conferred on Mr Herbert Asquith, who has intimated his desire to be known by the style and title of Earl of Oxford.
Mr A. J. Cook, general secretary of the Miners’ Federation, speaking at Doncaster, said he wanted to avoid a strike of miners alone, and he would consult the whole Trade Union movement—political, industrial, national, and international—before a move was made.
A CONFERENCE on nationalisation of the mines, convened by the Independent Labour party, was held in Glasgow, at which Mr E. Shinwell and Mr Robert Smillie were the principal speakers. The opportunity was taken to make reply to the recent statement by Sir Adam Nimmo on the position of the coal industry.
At a meeting in Edinburgh, Mr Adam Nimmo, chairman of the Lothians Coalowners’ Association, expressed the hope that if the existing wages agreement in the coal industry were to be terminated, an atmosphere would be created which would assure the success of negotiations for a new agreement.
Mr W. Dobbie, president of the N.U.R., speaking at Brighton, said that in their new programme the Union had decided that there should be no agreement for any section unless the companies were prepared to settle for all.
Some 600 delegates attended a Conference in London under the auspices of the national minority movement. A tribute was paid to Lenin, and cheers were raised for Soviet Russia.
Fifty persons were injured in an alarming accident at Glasgow Central Station. The brakes of a special train conveying passengers from a football match at Cathkin Park failed to act, and a violent collision with the buffers resulted.