BRITISH COAL INDUSTRY
DEBATE IN COMMONS difficulties of trade By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright LONDON, Tuesday. The situation in the coalmining industry formed the subject of a long debate in the House of Commons. The Opposition drew attention to the serious results of low wages and the ever-increasing unemployment. Several Labour members complained at the delay in carrying out the recommendations of the Royal Commission. Mr G. R. Lane-Fox, Secretary for Mines, on behalf of the Government, pointed out that the main cause of the trouble was the over-production of coal throughout the world. In spite of everything the export trade had made a wonderful recovery after the strike. , Personally, he did not believe in crying “stinking fish.” The eighthours’ day had saved many pits. Practically everything the Coal Commission had suggested the Government had adopted, but the commission was opposed to the idea of ' compulsory amalgamations. The effect of the French embargo was not so far very serious.—A. and N.Z,
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 96, 14 July 1927, Page 11
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