SHINWELL AGREES WITH BRITISH MINERS’ VIEW
LONDON, April 14. “This will make the headlines.” said the Minister of Fuel (Mr E. Shinwell), when his constituents presented him with an electric clock at a rally during the week-end. Mr Shinwell said that during the next few weeks he might find it impossible to use the clock, but if it were temporarily out of action it would still adorn his mantlepiece. In spite of the pessimism of the reactionary groups, who were more anxious to see the Labour Government go down than the country survive, he felt sure, he said, that if Ihe present rate of recruitment in the mines was maintained, British miners would be able to produce all the coal the country required. Mr Shinwell said he agreed with the Trades Union Congress that the minimum coal requirement for the year was 220,000,000 tons, not 2.00,000.000 tons as set out in the White Paper.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 April 1947, Page 9
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