UNION SECRETARY ANNOYED
SPEECH NOT BROADCAST (Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 2. The general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, Mr Edwin Hall, told a miners’ meeting at Haydock, Lancashire, last night that the 8.8. C. had failed to broadcast a recording he had made at its request giving a pledge on behalf of the miners of maximum production under nationalisation. “Maybe I said something they didn't like about those black-hearted individuals who have gone for ever,” he added. The Daily Mail says the reference was to the coal owners. Mr Hall’s recording was to have been broadcast as part of the 8.8.C.’s “Nationalisation Day ” programme. A 8.8. C. official told the Daily Mail that if accusations were being made there would have to be an inquiry. He added that a mass of material was recorded about nationalisation of the mines, and obviously it could not all be used. A recording by Mr J. Webb, chairman of the North-Western Regional Coal Board, was broadcast instead of Mr Hall’s.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26350, 3 January 1947, Page 5
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