AUSTRALIAN COAL TRADE
ROYAL COMMISSION TO BE APPOINTED, i (Rec. April 13, 5.5 p.m.)
Sydney, April 13. Aa a recent arrangement between the colliery owners and the employees will affect the New South Wales Government to the extent of several hundred thousand pounds yearly, the Cabinet has doeided to intervene, and has appointed a Royal Commission to immediately and fully inquire into the coal trade, in view of this the owners refuse to proceed with the arrangement, and the men talk generally of a stirke. The Acting-Prime Minister, Mr. W. A. Watt, under whose presidency the arrangement was reaohed, views the State ' Government's intervention as likely to cause serious complications.—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 171, 14 April 1919, Page 5
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111AUSTRALIAN COAL TRADE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 171, 14 April 1919, Page 5
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