GOVT. AND COAL MINES
U.S.A. LABOUR LEADER'S VIEWS
CANBERRA, March 20.
The United States Coal Miners’ leader, Mr. John L. Lewis, is opposed to the nationalisation of mines. This is disclosed in a report to the Federal Cabinet by the Minister of Customs (Senator R. V. Keane), who recently visited America. In talks with Senator Keane, Mr. Lewis emphasised the lack of "Governmental interference with the coal mining industry. Mr. Lewis said the Government had not paid a dollar subsidy to open up new mines.. The union favoured the mechanisation of mines. Mr. Lewis told Senator Keane that the wages of United States coal miners were three times those of the British miners, and that <the American production a head was six times that of Britain.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 March 1945, Page 8
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