NEW SOUTH WALES PITS
THE COMMISSION’S REPORT. NEITHER SIDE SATISFIED. (United Press Association.) .{By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, April 2. The colliery proprietors entirely disagree with the Coal Commission’s recommendation for the appointment of a board of three to control the coal industry. They claim that it would involve the creation of a huge bureaucracy, saddling the industry with an enormous annual cost. Moreover, artificial regulation and interference would accentuate the present difficulties. The miners’ representatives and union officials generally state that the commission’s recommendation for licensing employees would not fie tolerated for a moment. The Premier informed Parliament that the commission’s report would in due course be debated in the Assembly. AGGREGATE MEETINGS OF MEN. CALLED FOR NEXT WEEK. SYDNEY, April 2. (Received April 2, at 10 p.m.) Aggregate meetings of coal miners, at which the coal position will be placed before the men, will he held early next week. It is understood that the leaders will urge them to return to work on the compromise terms pending an investigation into their claims against wage cuts at a later date.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20992, 3 April 1930, Page 9
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