NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 10 May 1924

10 MAY 1924

The report of the Court of Inquiry concerning the wages in the coal mining industry sets out the six principal points raised by the miners, and gives the conclusions arrived at. It is added “the resumption of negotiations between the parties with a view to a modification of the terms of the agreement of 1921 appears to offer an immediate and practicable means of effecting a new wages agreement”.

Raymond Poincaré, the Prime Minister of France, accepted an invitation from Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, to visit England on 20 May and spend the evening at Chequers.

A disturbance broke out in Kirkul, Mesopotamia, broke out with 100 members of the public being killed.