WORLD COAL SITUATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20833, 27 September 1929, Page 9

WORLD COAL SITUATION

; A CONFERENCE AT GENEVA. DELEGATES FROM BRITAIN. OUTLINE OF SUGGESTIONS. (British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.) RUGBY, September 25. (Received Sept. 26, at 5.5 p.m.)' The president and he secretary of the Miners’ Federation left London yesterday for the Geneva Conference of Coal Ex perts. Which will be opened on Monday The conference has been summoned by the Economic Committee of the League of Nations- for consideration bf the world coal situation, and in' particular sugges tions conveyed’ in an interim report, which were briefly as follows:—lnteruationajl agreements between producers should .’be ‘ arranged concerning output, markets,, and prices;' a special international committee representative of all . interests—Governments, employers, miners, merchants, and, consumers—should be set up; measures should be taken for assimilating, in not equalising, wages, hours, and social conditions of labour.;, and’ the existing artificial restrictions of trade iu coal and the artificial stimulation of production should* be abolished. Representatives of British coal-owners will leave London to-day to take part in the discussions. BRITISH COAL FOR CANADA. ■ MR THOMAS MEETS OWNERS. ‘ (British Official Wireless.) '• ’ .■" RUGBY, September 25. ' (Received Sept. 26, at 5.5 p.m,)' Mr J. H.‘ Thomas, Minister of Unemployment, td-day received at the TreasuVy about a dozen representative coal-owners, with whom he wished to discuss the question of selling_ British coal in Canada. The-meeting-was a‘sequel to his recent visit to the Dominion, when he learned that large contracts for British coal could ,be obtained if the price was suitable. . • s Among the coal-owners .present at the Interview were Mr Evan Williams, president, and Mr Lee, secretary of the Coal Owners’ Association.