COAL INDUSTRY

Hawera Star, Volume L, 29 July 1930, Page 5

COAL INDUSTRY

PROPOSALS AT HOME PUBLIC OWNERSHIP SOUGHT NATIONALISATION OP ROYALTIES (By Telegraph —Press Association.) RUGBY, July 27. The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. William Graham) in a speech at the Durham miners demonstration yesterday, referred to the passing of the Coal Mines Bill. He said that already in important districts the Go\ - eminent was getting into touch with the wholesale and retail trade, and it the Government continued jn office and secured a majority, its next legislation would be to complete the structure of the public ownership and public control and to deal with the wholesale and distributing trades. The next legislation would wipe out a great deal of redundancy in the intermediary elements and place coal at the disposal of the people and industries on the very best terms consistent with justice and fair play to the mining community. ’ “We are looking. forward to the time when the British Government will be able to speak to kindred governniouts iii Germany and J oland and say unitedlv, ‘No longer do we cut one another’s throats m meeting the legitimate needs of the people, added” Mr. Graham. “We propose to make our national co-operation international, because the great industries are no longer in opposition.” , The Government hoped, added Mr. Glraham, that time would be found in the next Parliamentary session for a Bill to nationalise mining royalties.