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PLIGHT OF THE MINERS.

LEADERS PESSIMISTIC. DEPUTATION TO GOVERNMENT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Dec. 5. A full report of the miners’ deputation to Mr. Bonar Law shows that Mr. Herbert Smith said: “The miners will not continue to bear this in just agony. I went into the pit in 187'1, and say that a miner’s life was never worse than now.

Mr. Bonar Law replied that he could not see a remedy, but thought the miners’ leaders were too pessimistic. There was an improvement in the iron and steel industries, which, if continued, would have a big effect on the price of coal. The coal industry could not be subsidised. “We are.” he continued, “now paying in benefit £13.600,000 to unemployed. It will take the Government all its time to balance the budget.” He urged the miners to wait a couple of months to see whether the present improvement was going to mature. “If it does not. I am ready to reconsider the desirability of a mining inquiry,” he concluded.

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Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1922, Page 6

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170

PLIGHT OF THE MINERS. Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1922, Page 6

PLIGHT OF THE MINERS. Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1922, Page 6

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