BETTER CONTROL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 270, 13 November 1937, Page 9

BETTER CONTROL.

COAL AND COTTON.

Reorganisation Proposals in Britain!

LEGISLATION AND AGREEMENT

British Official Wireless. (Received 2 p.m.) RUGBY, November 12. The Government's plans for the eoal industry are embodied in the Coal Bill of 1937, tabled in the House of Commons last night.

Provision is made in the bill for unification of royalties under the ownership and control of a new Coal Commission. Reorganisation of the industry is furthered by a scheme for transferring to the commission the functions of the Coalmines Reorganisation Commission, and by varying powers of compulsory amalgamation.

The bill provides that each owner of the principal coal hereditaments is to receive in compensation his proportion of the £i;u.4.-)0,()<)0 allowance made for their purchase, with a special tribunal .o decide disputes. Cotton Reorganisation Plans. The general committee of the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' Associations, at a special meeting, decided by a larj-e majority to approve in principle a proposal put forward by a joint committee of cotton trade organisations for reorganisation of the industry.

This proposal lias now been approved by both spinning and manufacturing employers' organisations, and also by the council of the Northern Counties Textile Trades Federation, on which arc represented all operatives' organisations.