COAL SITUATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 229, 27 September 1929, Page 7

COAL SITUATION.

Experts For Geneva For World Conference. MINERS AND OWNERS. (British Official Wireless.) RUCBY, September 26. The president of the British Miners' Federation, Mr. Herbert Smith, and the secretary of the federation, Mr. A. J. Cook, left London on Tuesday for Geneva, where a conference of coal experts will open on Monday. The conference has been summoned by the Economic Committee of the League of Nations for the consideration of the world coal situation. In particular the conference will consider suggestions conveyed in an interim report, which were briefly as follows: — International agreements between producers should be "arranged concerning output, markets and prices; a special international committee representative of all interests, Governments, employers, miners, merchants and consumers should be set up; measures should be taken for making uniform, if not equalising, the wages, hours and social conditions of labour; and the existing artificial restrictions of trade in coal and the artificial stimuli of production should be abolished. Representatives of the coalowners in Britain left London yesterday to take part in the discussions.