BRITISH COAL TRADE.
LONG DEBATE IN COMMONS A WONDERFUL RECOVERY. London. July 12. The House of Commons engaged in a long debate on the situation of the coal trade, the Opposition drawing attention to the seriousness of low wages and the ever-increasing unemployment. Several Labourites complained of the delay in carrying out the recommendations of the Roval Commission. The Rt, Hon. G. R. Lane Fox. Under-Secretary for Mines, on behalf of the Government, pointed out that the main cause of the trouble was over-production of coal throughout the world Despite the export trade had made a wonderful recovery after the strike. Personally he did not believe in ervina “stinking fish.” The eight hours dav had saved many pits. Practically everything the Coal Commission had suggested the Government had adopted, but the Commission was opposed to the idea of the compulsion Of amalgamations. The effect of the French embargo was not so far. verv serious,—(A.P.A. and “Sun” cable.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 179, 14 July 1927, Page 5
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