BRITISH COAL INDUSTRY
OWNERS DISMAYED AT REPORT “WILL NOT SETTLB DISPUTE” ' (Sydney "Sun" Cable.) LONDON, March 11. The miners’ executive considered the coal report and declined to make a pending to-morrow’s delegate meeting, which is expected to concentrate on opposition to wage revision and the stoppage of the subsidy. South Wales owners and miners are dismayed at the coal report. They declare that only stagnation and impoverishment loom ahead. Sir William - Johnson believes- that there is no hope for the Welsh industry until longer hours are. worked. Sir David Llewellyn says that the removal of the subsidy means an increase in price. Mr Harris, the Miners’ Federation treasurer, says that, the report will not-settle the dispute. The reduction of the bonus, which now amounts to 33 per cent upon the standard wage, is not acceptable. Mr Justice Sankey, who was chairman of the 1919 Coal Commission, which recommended nationalisation, briefly'commented on the present report: "I think it is an effort to postpone the inevitable.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12394, 13 March 1926, Page 5
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