COAL MINING DISPUTE
MACDONALD PROMISES LEGISLATION
GOVERNMENT’S EFFORTS
British Official Wireless ’RUGBY, Sunday.
The Prime Minister, Mr. MacDonald, has written to Mr. C. M. Aitchison, K.C., Lord Advocate for Scotland, who is the Labour candidate in the Kilmarnock by-election. After dealing with the Government’s foreign policy and its efforts for world peace, Mr. MacDonald refers to the coal-mining dispute. He says the Government strove hard to effect an agreement between the mine-owners and the miners which would have given fair play to the workers, who are overworked and scantily paid. But it was not successful. It intended to proceed with legislation which, it believed, would commend itself to the great body of impartial - people and which had the support of the general body of the miners and a not inconsiderable section of the owners. Great would be the service done to the whole community by any Government which would undo the mischief of the late Government, put the coalmining industry on a satisfactory economic footing and establish within it conditions and machinery for industrial peace and fair play.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 830, 26 November 1929, Page 9
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178COAL MINING DISPUTE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 830, 26 November 1929, Page 9
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