A COAL PARADOX
"The itroub'le with the coal industry at the moment, paradoxical though it may sound, lis that we are troubed with too much efficiency, and that thei only hope for it is mor© efficiency. As I say, that is paradoxical, but it is the fact. The 'losing concerns are in the position they are through the greater efficiency and the undercutting of the concerns which are more 'efficiently equipped. .First of all, therein ust be unification. Whethere that is don e for »the industry as a, whdle, or whether it is Mone district by distnict, that has to be done as a preliminary. There can be no settlement until that first step is taken. The next thing that has to be done i® to adopt the necessary machinery to prevent the undercutting and underselling that have been going on, 'which are a characteristic of the industry, and which are producing such ruinous results aIS through the country. Till both these things havef been Jdone, it is not Hair to ask the miners to make any sacrifices to enable the coalowners to have more coal to dispose of in th e (same way as they have done before." —Mr Hartshorn MiP., in the House of Commons.
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1925, 23 October 1926, Page 2
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207A COAL PARADOX Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1925, 23 October 1926, Page 2
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