NATIONAL CONTROL SUGGESTED.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13825, 21 July 1915, Page 5

NATIONAL CONTROL SUGGESTED.

;Becei'red July 20, 11.55 p.m.) London, July 20

I The! "Manchester Guardian" suggests national control of all collieries, or the South "Wales field only, which would terminate > automatically after the war. The owners would meanwhile enjoy inccrnes based on the average profits in the prosperous years preceding the war, and also salaries if they manage their own pits. The workmen would then accept compulsion as pub-

lie servants, knowing that the profits were goim.; to the country. It is impossible to treat a man working for a private employer as a transgressor of a public law when he withholds his labour.