NATIONALISATION

Grey River Argus, 10 August 1925, Page 5

NATIONALISATION

WHERE TORIES ARE HEADING. LONDON, August 9. The “Manchester Guardian’’ editorially draws attention to suspicions already rooted in some people’s minds that Mr. Baldwin will l>e unable to ban-d the mining industry to unfettered private management. The "Guardian adds: “A Conservative Govern uient may well lie found to have taken a bigger step towards nationalisation of a. vital industiy than even the Latour Government would have dared.’’

FEARED BY COAL BARONS. (Received August 9 at 5.3 p.m.) LONDON, August 7. On behalf of the Mining Owners' Association, MrThiHp Gue has issued a statement warning the public that a coal crisis will recur in exactly the same form next May, unless the situations is f.) ed resolutely in tho interval. He declares that a small body of extremists are controlling the Miners' Federation, who never intended to arrive ut a settlement of the dispute. “They do not want industrial peace,” ba says, “but they want to overthrow private enterprise mid the existing structure of society. A lasting settlement is impossible until the eonstitu tional issue is faced, namely: Are we to bo governed by Parliament or by a Soviet acting under the name of the British Labour Movement?’’