COAL COMMISSION.
STATE OWNERSHIP AND STRIKES. London, May 16. Sir Gregory Wade, Agent-General for New South Wales, in evidence at the Coal Commission, taid the Railway Board in New South Wales had reduced the dangers of State ownership of railways to a minimum. The Labor Government of New South Wales had never attempted to nationalise coal, despite the miners' demand. Under nationalisation there was no itimulant to economy or reduction in excessive staffs. State ownership encouraged bureaucracy in the desire to avoid responsibility and encouraged laziness among miners. All the coal, after leaving the pit head, should be controlled, but this could be accomplished without nationalisation. The whole industry and the miners should be represented at the tribunal which fixed wages and the conditions of labor, but it would be dangerous to discipline if the management was shared with the miners. He was certain that State ownership would never stop strikes. This was proved by the experience of the Victorian conl mines, New South Wales railways, Commonwealth shipbuilding, and the New Zealand coal mines.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1919, Page 5
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176COAL COMMISSION. Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1919, Page 5
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