COAL NATIONALISATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1919, Page 5

COAL NATIONALISATION.

LESSON FROM THE DOIfINIONH, ' 1 By Telegraph.—Press AMn.—Copyrlfht, . ?ffl| Received Aug. 24, 11,6 pan. M New York, Aug. tt, ?3 The New York Times gaya, editorially, '•£ that the testimony before the British >P Coal Commission recently shoved that' I? the nationalisation of New Zealand and '*] Australian industries was ineffidaftt,tjn»-' -J to political control Workmen had Up/' % reason to be industrious. The QoTtfn- ' 'X munt did not dare to make a deoiittti> , i 'lg even when absolutely necessary. Th» -"J United States and Britain should baled % the lesson of the Antipodes.—Aus.-N,Z. $ Cable Assn. ' -1 UNSOUND AND DISASTROUS*. ~*| MINERS REALISE THE POSITIQSr. .. I Received Aug. 25, 12.40 a.m. , 1| London, Aug. 24. *ft Mr. Appleton, secretary of the General ■ t Federation of Trades Unions, states that . * nationalisation is unsound and economl- -* : cally disastrous from every standpoint State monopoly is the most oppressive of ■" all monopolies, and he urges the worker* to pause before it is too late and refute to listen to the extremists.

Mr. Smillie denies that the miner* art responsible for the decreased output of coal, which, he says, is due to the mineowners not developing the mines during. "' the war. Mr. Smillie believes the output '! will materially increase soon owing to *j the present developing work. The miners * realise that the nation's pressing need is a large output.—Aus. -N.Z. Gable Asm.