INDUSTRY IN EUROPE
INTERNATIONAL PROBLEM CONFERENCE AT GENEVA British Official Wlrelws. BUGBY, 7th January. At Geneva yesterday the Preparatory Technical Conference on Conditions in the coal-mining industry, which, aims at securing an international solution of certain of the industry's more critical problems, was opened, Mr. W. ]}.'■ Smith, Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade, being elocted president. The day's proceedings were devoted to general statements by representatives of the nine European coal-producing States taking part -in the conference. Sir Sydney Chapman said that the British Government heartily welcomed the convention on honrs of labour in the coalmining industry, and would welcome, if possible, one also on. wages and conditions of work. The British Government was in sympathy with all attempts to standardise- labour conditions when circumstances were ripe for such standardisation. Ho hoped that the- question of wages and conditions of labour would be carefully explored. On the matter of hours of work he was fulJy convinced that with a little patience, open-mindedness, and determination, a. convetion on that question would be possible.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 7, 9 January 1930, Page 9
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173INDUSTRY IN EUROPE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 7, 9 January 1930, Page 9
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