BRITISH COAL TRADE
COMMISSION’S REPORT. DISMAY ALL ROUND. (Press Association—By Telegraph -Copyright.) LONDON, March 11. The miners’ executive considered the coal report, but declined to make a statement pending to-rnorrow’s meeting of delegates. It is expected that they will concentrate their opposition on the wage revision and the stoppage subsidy. The South Wales owners and miners are dismayed at the coal report. They declare that anly stagnation and impoverishment are ahead. Stir William Johnson expresses the opinion that there is no hope for tho Welsh industry until longer hours are worked. Sir David Llewellyn said the removal of the subsidy meant an increase in price. Mr Harris (miners’ treasurer) said: ‘‘The report won’t settle the dispute. Tho reduction of tho bonus, which now amounts to 35 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 tho present report as follows: —“I think it is an effort to postpone the inevitable.” —Sydney Sun Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19737, 13 March 1926, Page 11
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