GENEVA CONFERENCE
BRITISH REPRESENTATIVES LEAVE, (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. September 25. The president and secretary ol the Miners’ Federation left London yesterday for Geneva, to attend the conference of coal experts which will (pen on Monday. The conference' has been summoned by the Economic Committee of the League of Nations for consideration of the world coal situation, and, in particular, suggestions conveyed in an interim report which were briefly as follow:—lnternational agreements between producers should be arranged concern ng outp t, markets and prices; a special international committee, representatives of all interests, Governments, employers, miners, morcnants, and consumers, should be set up: measures should he taken foi assimilating, if not equalising, wages, hours and social conditions of labour; and the existing artificial restrictions of trade in coal and artificial stimulus of production should he abolished. Representatives of the British coal owners leave London to-day to take part in the discussions.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1929, Page 5
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