COAL DISPUTE
CHANCE OF SETTLEMENT. OWNERS DESIRE PEACE. APPEAL TO MINERS. iV OAUI.R— i'RXSS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT. Received 11.45 a.in. to-day. SYDNfiA, let). 12. The Federal official who is• inquiring into the coal dispute, conferred witJi Mr. nibble, chairman of the Coal Tribunal and then returned to Melbourne, after telegraphing the result of his inquiries to the Prime Minister, the lit. Hon. S. M. Bruce. Early Federal action is expected. it is unofficially stated that there are good prospects of a settlement. The Northern Colliery Owners’ Association has issued a statement that the owners desire peace. it adds: “For years there has been such instability, dislocation, and continual interruption of production, the result of sectional stoppages, that to-day Australian foreign trade in coal, which once spread all over the southern hemisphere and even to remote countries, is now practically non-existent, and even in the Australian market the cost of production lias been so forced up that consumers are already replacmg coal by other means of power." The statement concludes by appealing to the miners to refrain, from a strike, which would be as foolish as it would he calamitous.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 12 February 1927, Page 5
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188COAL DISPUTE Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 12 February 1927, Page 5
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