LABOUR FOR COALMINES.
:. Monday's Herald appears a
letter., advocating the .employment ot •colonrea - labour at coalmining, von the STTormd that the labour, is unreliable. " The -writer also complains that: other correspondents offer no suggestion of -a practical nature to overtake the coal shortage. The suggestion I now make as a necessary, first ster> in the desired direction,..is the Abolition of-the, preference Ito unionists: clanse in all industrial awards. :Wero,;«that done and the pretensions of ;organisedi but irresponsible Labour to con--tK>l the enterprise, of other people, entirely "disallowed, and nnionistic intimidation, Jand even unwelcome solicitation "made 'punishable, there jieed '"bo little doubt about" plenty white labour to -man the mines! Such labour -would ibs attracted by the money to.he.made in'the mines, in comparison with other labour. Coloured . labour should be -allowed equal opportunity to white, as all should bo subject to the same law,- sand pay their -quota to ..the public revenue. Until Labour is ; saddfe^c'^W l due/economic Tesponsibility, are; likely to . have --a continuance of "this-for nof °civil war, the blockade of -industry. Fbeedost.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17594, 6 October 1920, Page 10
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