STATE COAL MINES
EVIDENCE AT BRITISH COMMIS- . SION. London, May IC. Sir Charles Wade (Agont-Geueral for Neir South Wales), in giving evidence before the Coal Commission, said that the Railway Board of New Sou.th Wales had reduced tho dangers of State ownership of railways to a minimum. The Labour Government of New South Wales never attempted to nationalise coal, despite the miners' demand. He was certain that Stnto ownership would never stop strikes. This was proved in tho Victorian coal mines, tho Now South Wales railways and tramways, the Commonwealth shipbuilding yards, and the New Zealand coal mines. There was no stimulus to economy or th».. reduction of excessive staffs. Stato ownership encouraged bureaucracy in the | desire to avoid responsibility, and encouraged laziness among the miners. All coal after leaving tho pithead should be controlled, but that could bo accomplished without nationalisation of tho wholo industry. The miners should be represented in _ a tribunal for fixing' wages and conditions of labour, but it would be dangerous to disciplino if thoy shared the management with the miner.—Aus.-N.SS. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 209, 29 May 1919, Page 5
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178STATE COAL MINES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 209, 29 May 1919, Page 5
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