COAL MINE STOPPAGES
MR. CURTIN APPALLED
(Rec. 9 a.m.) CANBERRA, May 19.
A recrudescence of coal mine stoppages led to a further statement by Mr. J. Curtin in the House of Representatives today. The Prime Minister attacked both the mine owners and the miners "for not subordinating their private interests to the welfare of the nation."
Declaring that it was the owners' business to assist the Government in overcoming the irritations leading to stoppages, he nevertheless said he was appalled at some of the reasons advanced for the disputes on the coalfields. "I know enough about this business to understand that this is not a one-sided state of affairs," he said. "It never has been. Yet lam satisfied that what is going on in the coalfields today has not the ordinary explanation of industrial disputes,"
Mr. Curtin added that he was taking the unusual course of personally investigating the cause of coal disputes. He was consulting the miners' representatives today and would hear the owners' sids of the case tomorrow.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 117, 20 May 1942, Page 5
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