MINING INDUSTRY
CRISIS APPROACHING IN BRITAIN DEADLOCK APPARENTLY INEVITABLE By Telegraph-Brew Association-Copyright. London, February 17. A dangerous situation appears to ho approaching in the mining industry. The miners are opposed to the ownere proposal that wages should be made Io depend largely upon profits, and they demand a new standard which should incorporate the greater part of the present earnings The owners are almost certain to resist, and a deadlock appears inevitable. Government control of prices terminates at the end of. March, and the owners declare that if will bo impossible to carry on unless prices are raised and wages reduced. The miners have intimated that they will not accept any reduction. Meanwhile the coal export trade is practically at a standstill, and unprofitable colleries are being closed. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 125, 19 February 1921, Page 7
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131MINING INDUSTRY Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 125, 19 February 1921, Page 7
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