COAL TRADE IN BRITAIN.
EFFECT OF COMPETITION. INDUSTRIAL PEACE URGED. Australian and NZ. Cable Association. (Reed. 6 p.m.) LONDON. Feb. 8. Mr. Frank Hodges, M.P., ex-secretary of the Miners' Federation, in outspoken proposals to save tho coal industry from ruin, said that the international markets for the export of coal were narrowing down. Those now available were .subject to most intense competition, in which America and Germany played the most important part. It would pay the Miners' Federation, said Mr. Hodges, to investigate what was happening in Germany, and work in the direction of securing uniformity in hours and wages, based on those of the country where most favourable conditions for men were secured. " I would not rule out ihc international agreement for tho regulation of the world s supply," concluded Mr. Hodges. "The fust step toward efficiency is the complete unification of the collieries within a given area. Meanwhile, tho railways should reduce freights for mineral traffic by a third. I should like to see five years of undisturbed peace in the coal trade."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18939, 10 February 1925, Page 9
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175COAL TRADE IN BRITAIN. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18939, 10 February 1925, Page 9
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