"WORSE THAN SWINE.''
HOW MINERS LIVE. OUTBURST AT THE COAL COMMISSION. LONDON, March IS. When representatives of the National Federation of Steel .Manufacturers urged, at the Coal Commission on Saturday, that to increase miners' wages would irreparably injure the steel export industry. Mr R. Suiillie (president of tin- Miners' Federation I declared that every ton of steel paid 10/10 in royalties upon coal and iron ore. Mr Smillie passionately declared that Britain's iron and steel industry was built upon the tears and starvation of the miners, who were boused worse than swine. He indignantly denied that the American miners were more productive, claiming that the British miners worked tbip veins of 22in. The commission is keeping up its time-table, and expects to supply its report on March 20.
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 72, 25 March 1919, Page 5
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