EMPIRE TRADE
BRITISH MINERS’ ATTITUDE. United Press Association—By Electri Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, August 12. The opening of the British.Miners’ Federation Conference took place today. Mr Richards, the acting President, in 1 iis opening address, declared the conference offered no objection to the General council of Trades Unions investigating the possibilities of industrial and economic relations with the Dominions iit order to enable Britons to form a judgment on the schemes proposed for the mutual exchange of commodities independent of tariffs, hut the coal mining industry was not interetcd, owing to the ifnct that the overwhelming proportion of the coal exported from Britain went to Europe, Lord Beaver brook’s scheme of Empire free trade, however, would seriously affect the miners in the coal exporting districts, and it would involve great unemployment.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1930, Page 3
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