AMERICAN COAL STRIKE.
| COMMANDEERING METHODS.
I My Telegraph—Prem- Auccinfionmnnnvrizht l Australian and NZ. Cable Association. = WASHINGTON, November 30. l The commandeering of coal passing {through the territory by various com- ' mittEes will result. in a sixteen million 1 ton shortage. due to the miners' strike. IThe commandeering has become so ‘prm’alcnt that the. Federal Fuel Distribution Committee has issued a warning that where a community seizes coal intended for another community. there is a liability of reprisals. The burden is general, and attempts at taking the law into their own hands will only tend towards chaos and suffering all round. The Federal Mine Bureau has issued a statement, blaming the recent coalmine explosions, resulting in 185 deaths. to the coal strike. It is pointed out iha/t the strike has caused a loosening of morale throughout the goal industry. the lowering of discipline, and the employment of inexperienced persons, which is conducive to accidents.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16904, 1 December 1922, Page 4
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