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Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1928, Page 2

1110 COAL UPHEAVAL. PPOPHESIKD 15V COOK. LONDON, Feb. 11. Owing to further reductions in the minors’ earnings in the north-eastern foal fields. the Miners’ Secretary. Mr Cook, prophesies a big coal tiplieaval unless the Government intervenes. lie adds: "The Australian miners have appealed to the International meeting at Brussels. French, Belgian, and German miners also tear reductions in wastes. Thus an international crisis exists in addition to the Briitsh. LONDON. Feh. 11. Mr Boothhv. who is just hack from Germany, condemned the wasteiul undercutting of prices between British and German coal owners, which had cost the former eight millions sterling since the general strike. International agreements are operating finance m several other industries, why not coal : but there must be a preliminary trustification and reorganisation of the British coal trade.” He believed Sir CTtnliffe Lister could entorec this with the aid of the hanks 1 pressure. Ihe Federation of German Industries was very anxious tor Anglo-German agreements. concerning coal, iron and steel. An economic Locarno was Europe s greatest need in order to maintain the world’s standard of living. Lobbyists agree that the speech in the Commons by Mr Boothhv, who is Mr Churchill’s Parliamentary private secretary, is unusually important, amounting to a definite approach to British industry by the German iron and steel cartel and coal owners.