FOREIGN MINERS OPPOSED
View Of Union Committee ,
(N.Z. Press Awoctatiox—CopjirlgMJ LONDON, August 30. The “Daily Mail” today predieted that the Coal Board’s plan to recruit 10.000 Italians to work in undermanned British pits will be rejected by the National Union of Mineworkers. “The special six-man committee appointed by the union to report on the plan decided yesterday that it would' be impossible to overcome the opposition ip the big coalfields to the employment of foreign labour. “So the Coal Board will be told that the only real Solution to the industry’s problems is ’still better conditions for Britain’s miners' ’’. The “Daily Mail” quoted Mr Arthur Horner the miners' secretary, as saying that the industry’s labour force, which has dwindled to 703.000, would have to be raised to 740,000 to produce all the coal the country needed. When the union’s full executive meets on September 3, it will be advised to take the stand that the manpower shortage can only be overcome by pitting up the rates of pay, and reducing the hours work. In the first six months of this year, Britain mined 36,115,000 tons of coal—a decrease of 683,000 tons on the same period- last year; said the paper.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27752, 1 September 1955, Page 13
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