HEROIC MEASURES.
TO SAVE COAL TRADE. INTERNATIONAL REGULATION. (Received 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, February 8. Mr Frank Hodges, in outspoken proposals to save tlie coal industry from ruin, said the international nlarkets for export coal were narrowing down. Those now available were subject to most .intense competition, in which America and Germany played a most important part. It would pay the Miners' Federation to ir.vestigate what was happening in Germany and to work in the direction of securing uniformity ihours and wages based or. those of the country where the most favourable conditions for men
were secured. "I would -not," he said, "rule out an international agreement for the regulation of the world 's supply. The first step towards efficiency is complete unification of the collieries within a given area. Meanwhile the railways should reduce freights for mineral traffic "by one-third. I should like to see five years of undisturbed peace in tho coal trade." —A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 9 February 1925, Page 5
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