COAL INDUSTRY
INTER NATIONAL ACTION , i ~ (Ansi. and N.Z. Cabie) Rugby, Sept. 3. At {he meeting of the Council of the League of Nations the British delegate. Dr Hugh- Dalton, tindersecretary for Foreign Affairs, welcomed; the decision t° set up a- committee of Inquiry on International co-operation. He intimated that the British delegation would move a resolution in {lie Assembly .dealing with) international action on the coal question. WAGES AND HOURS An interview on- this subject with Dr Dalton is published in the New Leader, in which the Minister emphs isises ti e need for securing the international regulation of the- coal industry. Dr Dalton adds: “In order to buttress securely the standards' of wages and hours in this country we need international conventions regulating these matters in all . important ‘ coal-producing communities of tbfe world. Such international conventions are not a. substitute for Labour’s policy of nationalisation «{ home, hut an essential supplement to L”
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Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2303, 4 September 1929, Page 7
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