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COAL INDUSTRY LIMPING BADLY CHEAP COOLIE COMPETITION (Australian Press Association > Retd. 12.10 p.m. SYDNEY. To-da> An official statement on the coal position was made by Mr. C. McDonald, chairman of the Northern Colliery Proprietors’ Association, who endorsed Mr. John Brown’s comments that the coal position is parlous, and that, in order to stabilise the industry, owners, miners and the Government must make sacrifices. Foreign and inter-State coal shipments had dropped 1,700,000 tons. Australia could not possibly compete with coolie-produced Japanese and South African coal, while Swedish, French, Belgian and German proprietors were complaining that British owners were underselling them. Mr. McDonald added that the other side of the picture was Government assistance which some countries were giving to the coal industry, which was denied in Australia.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 348, 8 May 1928, Page 9
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128AUSTRALIA UNDERSOLD Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 348, 8 May 1928, Page 9
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