THE MINERS' NEXT STEP.

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 72, 18 December 1919, Page 8

THE MINERS' NEXT STEP.

WHAT HAPPENED IN ENULAiND,

(Contributed.) ' ]n-considering what the next act in the drama, of "Old King Uhi wiH b» ■ in JSc.i- Zealand, we may prohtabjy follow toe cou.se of events in iingkind since he strike of 191-'. W ««» »'** "V*? :■, ?rlk-there- was issued. by ['« u^,; a i feform a pamphlet, entitled ' -rii.. ilJiiim' next step, being a »"S- _ B'cstVd' UOrgamsatloir ut me i'eflcmtion." : ". ' ' . The imluslr.nl foik-'S' Wi,i . l ° be , du J"" B mi-tliatc demand ror a minimum wage and a seven-hour day, to lie followed .by •••. continual agitation in favour ot m- ' creasing ihc'iinniinu.n wage and shorteni, t the hours of work, until ue have exn-wied the whole of The employers profits." The old methods striking-was o be abandoned, ami men wow.urged .« "ndopt the more scientific method of .0 a irritation .strike by simply, remaining at work, reducing the v ouipui. alie so contrive hv their gene-i.il wimi ct fo miko colliery unreiftnncrulivc. Th* ll!t »™ °.. o'o" was to be the climinatioif'of»tho..ani«ito:i which "will .ultimately lake "ver the mining .industry, and carry »t on in tho interests-of the workers... Mtionulisation "does not lead ... 11. 1 ?c----h'nn 'but -imp v mnkes-a national trust, S?tU He force of : the Government behind it, whose-ono wnecrn will be to Tel that tho industry is run in such a wav as to pay the interest, on the bonds i tli hid. he coal owners are paid out ,d to extract as much more■ profit m "xahon of other laiHlords and. Our own concern- is to. si ■ it tnai. e«»who create the value "~v-»»•_. . _ "With iemarl;aule-.1-.: "v, tl, J s .v„,' T \ 1 Marriott, J1.1'.,. in an ariclo oV-V&un s- ...d the- Nation," in tn e C nturv," "has the agitation among the Sri followed the coura-marked out fnrTt'bv the- Unofficial Committee, of ■» the limitation of out- „ pi ever-increasing domains for ugh« l-nges and shorter W ; ,l L nrbpriS ' 11,.. ultimate ext notion ol the l'! O P"h • jsiii&sss S- '■ ,-iU be empovod again to elect tnn ri ! minitio. of the State ami the g OB I of svfelisation will be reached ,„ iUI *o no t fa .v'of New Zealand .Dc to to tola ''liSuiriott then points, on] :< M lutioi-alisntion of the coal »r "" ~-ill piov de no perhiancil »olm 10I i ici -increase of wages inusi. hVher vice to' the t 1> ountei acted by Scaler efficien c jr r.r more economy of management. , Ten he a-k;-. "Will auyoue f ve. ~.9 In • u o pate greater ci-onomy of ad in.,. ,:itmn\mdc?aSta^bm r in -In- r.riv-t" management? llu.re > e V ll i ; « » might have, elicited com-. 1 A i •t:v.v answers. The np«tles,of-qolr Hi viwu were at thai lime jubilant. The,- had seen tho railways FjV* nomin-. junior I he control cf the Slate. Phey h-d v.ilir---;l the ("diiblishment of ™* , iinisr * impulse Ilierc-V Kivon lo pro. W w-ir t;-urnc--cs. Thev had not yet h/W wfill 1. - had thry begun to count the nisi of then- r-cprrimenl- in i.-.itionalf-Ka- , to. s!m, the!, thev has toon a rßd. c.wakeiiMip. and uiu>equon ;> a pio iiouncnl an-J honhhy >««• lion. 1| w rnilivavs. which un-.!cr private nanagoment virhled .-, modest revMiue, to their -,„.,,-;,;„,. a ,. c now .running, under Slaie pinli-01. at a !o-s, it is averred, o il;) millions a year. Biy-ul I,i I'if I lino of m millions, while o\el> 1,.., ',-.!• co-jl cuiisiiuied at home, des.nto (lie l'a-1 Hint it- ni-'c? *»«* »'""' V. 11 " 1 (I(inW „,l, |. s: ,d l, be sold.M a'loss. Siu-h an the frniU <:1 Male control i„. Mnglaml. I .el those who are repeal ; i„ u r the iwrr.il cry ".Naiion-tlivation nnililer Hum' facts, l.c-fw sub-lilntin? for private onlernr'sf and management tho .. r'Fid and lethargic (.lovcrii.iie.it. stroke.