SMOKE OF COAL STRIKE
“It is difficult to see how we are to escape with the Government, the owners, ancl the Miners’ Federation all in their present mood anil temper. The coalowners may hope that the men. will uilt'imatcjjr accept defeat, and that the industry will thus he restarted with arrangements more or less to their 'lilting and with all the sting taken out of the 'Coal Commiss'ioß’s report. The miners' leaders may hope that if this happens the rank and file will return to work in a temper that wttlil make it easy for the struggle to be renewed as soon as opportunity offeksi Could anything be more disastrous to the nation at large than a bad settlement to-day with the certain prospect of another disturbance in twelve months’ time?’’
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1927, 28 October 1926, Page 7
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131SMOKE OF COAL STRIKE Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1927, 28 October 1926, Page 7
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