COAL POLICY

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1930, Page 3

COAL POLICY

£ V PUBLIC OWNERSHIP

CO-OPER ATIONN AMONG THE

NATIONS

1 j v (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 27. ■,L PAlready, in important districts, the Government are getting, into touch with the wholesale and retail coal trade, , and; if the Government should '/contjnue in office and get a majority, tlieir'next legislation will he to. complete The structure of public ownership and’public control,” said the President of the'Board of Trade, Mr William Graham, in a.speech at a demonstration of mirters at Durham yesterday, when, referring to the Coal Mines Bill. “We will- Jlien deal with the wholesale and distributing trades, following which legislation will be passed to wipe out 'ft*great deal'of the redundancy in the intermediary elements and place coal at biypldisposEvl; of the people [and] in- ' sistelitl" with’ justice' ’and fair play to rtfie piiningcommunity.”;!' • ‘We afe Jobbing- forward to a time,” .-‘whenr the .British Government will be able to speak to kindred Governments, .in.. Germany and. .Poland and‘Say'unitpdly'U ; jNoiloi|ger’do ; we rut Tne anotheFs throats in 'meeting the legitimate neeils of the people.’ We . propoise to make our national co-opera-tion international, because the great industries ’are no longer in opposition.” Concluding, Mr Graham said that •the Government hoped that time ..’.would be found in the next Parliamentary session for a Bill to nationalise mining royalties.