POST-WAR PROBLEMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1944, Page 3

POST-WAR PROBLEMS

STUDY BY BRITISH MINERS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 12. British miners are to lay before Major Lloyd George, Minister of Fuel and Power, their own plans for dealing with post-war problems. Mr Will Lawther,' president of the Miners’ Federation, said today that their docunwnt will include a survey of post-war requirements in relation to coal production and manpower. He said the federation realised that the future of Britain depended on coal as an important export commodity. After mentioning various points in the. industry such as hours of work, wages and so on, with which it was proposed to deal, Mr Lawther said, the theory of cheap coal always meant, in the past cheap miners, and it was the rock on which the industry perished, and led to such dire results in pre-war years, when they had the spectacle of prominent persons organising charity at Christmasvfor working miners. “We shall also consider the question of international post-war organisation

in relation to the allocation of markets and the organising of them. Never again must chaos and anarchy that are operating in coal markets be allowed to recur.”