British Coalmining Industry

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 82, 7 April 1938, Page 7

British Coalmining Industry

— 1 Bill Accepted by Labour REGISTRATION PROCEEDING (British Official Wireless.) Received Wednesday, 7.5 p.m. RUGBY, April 5. The Coal Bill, which is one of the Government ’s main legislative measures of the session, was moved for a third reading in the House of Commons by Captain H. Cruikshank, Parliamentary Secretary for Mines, before going to the House of Lords later in tne week. The measure deals comprehensively with the interests of the present owners Of cohl, colliery-owners; workers and the community at large. Captain Cruikshank said this was the 15tli day of the Bill, and no motion was down for its rejection. He took it that, even if the Bill had not the goodwill of all members of the House it, at any rate, had their benevolent neutrality. While the Bill was before Parliament the registration of properties was proceeding. Up to the present 17,105 applications had been received. Air. E. Shin well (Labour —Sealiam) said the Opposition would not vote against the third reading of the Bill. They accepted anything conducive to the interests of mine-workers, and for that reason they accepted the Bill with all its defects and practical difiiculties in the hope that the Government and Commission and coal-owners would try to make the best of it in the interests of the workers and the nation as a whole. THIRD READING PASSED Received Wednesday, 7.50 p.m. LONDON, April 6. The House of Commons passed the third reading of the Coal Bill without a division.