COAL ENQUIRY.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18456, 10 August 1925, Page 9

COAL ENQUIRY.

APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSION.

SCOPE OF INVESTIGATION. ASSOCIATION—COFHIOHT.) S AND N -2. CABLE ASSOCIi'HOS.) LONDON, August 7. horning Post's - ' political correspondent states that Cabinet considered tho question of a coal commission. is understood that it will be a email 0 y composed of business men not connected with the coal industry. It is believed that tho terms" of the co erenco will be confined to asceraining what brought about the present condition and how far that condition may be improved by more efficient management, greater co-operation of employers and employees, and amalgamation of pits and so forth.

OWNERS' MANIFESTO.

SOVIET OR PARLIAMENT ?

(beuter's telegrams.)

(Received August 9th, 5.5 p.m.)

LONDON, August 8. On behalf of the Mining Association, Mr Philip Gee issued a statement warning the public that tho coal crisis will recur in exsictly the same form next May unless tho situation is faced resolutely in the interval. Ho declares: "A small body of extremists is controlling tho Miners' Federation. Thoy never intended to arrive at a settlement of the dispute. They do not want industrial peace, but to overthrow private enterpriso and tho existing structure of society. A lasting settlement is impossible until the constitutional issue is faced, namely: are we to be governed by Parliament or by the Soviet, acting under tho name of the Labour movement?"

"THE REAL PROBLEM."

MORE AMALGAMATION. . (AUSTRALIAN AKD N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, August 9. Mr J. L. Garvin, who has lived many years in the mining centro of Now-castle-on-Tyne, commenting on the coal agreement in an article in the " Obsorvor," says that the real problem of the British coal mines is crudely plain. About 1600 companies or individuals own 3000 pits. Through successive generations these have been opened and worked without sufficient regard in any district to a common policy as regards the fullest and cheapest yield, pumping and draining, the co-oporativo purchase of equipment and management of sales. What is wanted is more amalgamation, states Mr Garvin.

AMMANFORD DISPUTE SETTLED.

(ttEUTEa's TELEORAII3.) (Received August 9th, 5.5 ,pau.) IX)NDt)N, August 8. ia promised at tho Ammanford collie v ries as ii-result of a conference at Cardiff to-day, which reached a settle* monfc of the dispute at Westward's anthracite collieries.