PEACE ON COALFIELDS
FRANK HODGES’ ADVOCACY. ,’ EXPLANATION TO MINERS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received February 2/, 11.15 p.m.) LONDON, February 27. Air Frank Hodges, a national delegate at the conference of the Miners' Federation at Blackpool, explained what he meant by his speech on February 3rd. He denied that he spoke of a five years’ truce, in the sense of maintaining the existing state of affairs. He advocated peace on the coalfields, so that an attempt might be made to -adjust “the industry to world conditions. Air Hodges was assailed by other miners for declaring (allegedly) that the nationalisation of mines proposal was dead.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12075, 28 February 1925, Page 6
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