THE COAL PROBLEM.
INDUSTRIAL DISORGANISATION
FEARED.
■"■"""*•Received January 23, 8.25 p.m
LONDON, January 21.
The miners' programme provides ior a 30 per cent increase in wages, a six-hour day, and involves an additional forty million yearly in wages. The increase in the price of coal by four shillings per ton is causing alarm in the great industrial centres, particularly in the Birmingham (and Sheffield potteries. The export trades fear the demands, will strike a heavy blow to their attempts to resstablish the pre-war position and capture new markets.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17478, 24 January 1919, Page 5
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88THE COAL PROBLEM. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17478, 24 January 1919, Page 5
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