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* WORKERS’ REPLY. WAGES AND CONDITIONS. NATIONAL AGREEMENT WANTED. t ' BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COP i'BIGHT. Received 12.20 p.m. to-day. LONDON, April 13. The Miners’ executive spent four hours drawing up a reply to the Coal Commission’s recommendations for submission ■to rtilio coal owners, i'hc rciply, which like that of the coal o-wners, examines each recommendation, says: No wage is acceptable which does not provide at least a wage sufficient to furnish a decent living standard. The miners entirely disagree with the suggestion that the districts should settle the minimum percentage, and they oxprc-SiS the opinion r fcliati ulib .national bodies are fully competent to deal with tlio wago agreement and question on a uniform basis. They do not consider the redistributing of weekly hours over five days per week as practical, and disapprove of the suggestion to compensate the present owners of minerals, except those who purchased them. They express wiHingiieiss to consider multiple shifts and consider that both sides should, as early as possible, fonnulate a national agreement, whereby the minimum percentage is determined. 1 Re uter. '
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 14 April 1926, Page 9
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180COAL CRISIS Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 14 April 1926, Page 9
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