“Should’ Nationalise Mines Without Compensation”
SYDNEY, This Day. Coalmining should be nationalised without compensation to the owners, the general president of the Miners’ Federation (Mr. H. Wells) said, when submitting the Federation case to the Commonwealth Board of Inquiry into the coal industry. The board, which was set up in January following a conference between the then acting Prime Minister (Mr. Forde) and miners’ representatives, is investigating: (1) Production methods and means of securing maximum production of coal. (2) Absenteeism and stoppage. (3) Defects in the present arbiration system. Mr. Wells said that the coalmining industry should be nationalised because it was a basic industry in war and peace. He felt that the owners had received adequate payment for what they had expended in the industry. Aked to define nationalisation, Mr. Wells said that the industry should be taken from the present people working leases and no new leases should be granted to private enterprise. Mines should be worked by the Federal Government under a national plan. Mr. Wells said that under nationalisation and a long-term agreement with the conditions of health, greater safety in mines and security of employment, miners would produce more coal and the industry would-begin to pay handsomely.
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Northern Advocate, 6 March 1945, Page 3
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