HOUSE OF COMMONS.
(Australian it N.Z. Cable Association.) BRITISH COAL TRADE. LONDON, July 12. The Hou.se of Commons has been engaged in a long debate on the situation in tlm coal trade. The Opposition has been drawing attention to the seriousness of the low wages paid, and also that, of the over-increasing unemployment. Several of the Labourites complained that there is a delay in carrying out the recommendation of the Royal Coal Commission. Mr. G. R. Lane Fox, on behalf of the Government, pointed out that the main cause of the trouble was that there was over-production of coal throughout the world. Despite everything he asserts export trade had made a wonderful recovery after ihe strike. Personally he did not believe in crying ‘‘stinking fish.” The eight-hours’ day had saved many pits. Practically everything that the Coal Commission had suggested, the Govenment had adopted ; hut the Commission was opposed to the idea of any compulsion in the effecting of the amalgamations. The effect of the French coal embargo was not so far verv serious.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1927, Page 2
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174HOUSE OF COMMONS. Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1927, Page 2
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