BRITISH COAL COMMISSION
PROPOSALS OF MINE. OWNERS COST OF PRODUCTION TOO HIGH By j I’rDss Associative Coi’y right. London. January 5. The '‘Almning Post's” Labour correspondent, in an authoritative forecast: of the proposals of the coal-own-ers v.liit-11 tire being pre-ented to the Coal Commission, states that tbev include a return to the 8-bour dav, district regulation of wages and conditions of employment; also the reduction of railway rates. ' The'owners state that even now the cost of production greatly exceeds the seliiti" price. Further reductions are neccs'sarv if the lost export trade is to be regained.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 87, 7 January 1926, Page 8
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