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fire burning wants two shillings a day more pay. On an average |a British miner makes £2 58. a week, and to-day will decide whether his demands for an increase will be met. In the following article å writer
1935, at 23 Church Road explains the difficulties that
Osterley, Middlesex,
England,
Samuel Baker, beloved husband of Elizabeth Boyd Baker,
MISKIN-
OB
the 9th January, 1936, at the War Memorin! Nursing Home, Hongkong, after a
very
short illness, Joyce (nee Ram)
are experienced in Britain's Coal-mining industry.
dearly loved wife of Geoffrey THE Coal Trade for a century and more
Miskin. Funeral will pass the Monument at 6 pm. to-day.
The
has occupied a prominent place in the minds of the people of this country. Yet, strangely enough, very few outside the Coal Trade have anything but the most
difficulties which confront the employers". and the employed..
Hongkong Telegraph. superficial knowledge of the numerous
THURSDAY, JAN. 9, 1936.
NAVAL ACCORD
It is therefore of the utmost importance that the general public should be able to have the fullest information concern. ing the Coal Trade, because the industry is in itself so vital to With wide divergence of view.the welfare of the country, and points clearly revealed by the gives employment to so many London Naval Conference dis-men.
PROSPECTS
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Typical study · of a British miner and one of his
children
cussions, the task of reaching an The best way of approach is agreement satisfactory to all to set out the difficulties which parties would appear at the mo: confront the owners and the' ment to be somewhat remote.men. Indeed, Japanese sources are already predicting the failure of THE owning side of the indus- for the negotiations. Agreement on try has spent enormous sums a quantitative basis is now con- of money in sinking coal mines ceded to be practically impossi- and in providing equipment
NOTES OF THE DAY
And all Trelawny diet
Hero's, twenty thousand Cornishmen Will know the reason why.
as A
9, 1936.
YOU
If it is not bought); or if the prices at which it is sold aro unremunerative, wages cannot be increased above their present level without bankruptcy result- ing.
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THE public understand that the money for wages in- creases is not available in the industry at the present time, but there are many who believe that there are, concealed profits, or who think that money must be available because a few colliery undertakings have been able to declare dividends.¬
Now to take the second point first. It is not, perhaps, gen- erally understood that wages are not settled pit by pit, or coillery by colliery, but district by district; and the miners - maintain that even these areas are too small and that wages should be settlod nationally. So the fact that a particular colliery undertaking is working at a profit and paying dividends does not mean that all the collieries in that district can afford to pay increased wages. In fact, where no profit is made by a district as a whole,, any profit by an individual colliery must be balanced by a loss at another. The allegation in relation to "hidden profits" appears to be two-fold. It is suggested: ·
First, that colliery owners own by-product plants to which they sell coal at less than the market price, or even at a loss, thereby reduc- ing the pit-head proceeds upon which the miners' wages are calculated, and recoup themselves out of the profits they make on thèse by-product plants.
Secondly, that collieries dispose of coal to "solling agencies" (in which they are shareholders) at unremunera- tive prices, and that the pro- fits which these selling agencies make out of the colliery owners but not to that of the miners.
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IN regard to by-product plants, the answer is simple. The coal transferred to them must be transferred at fair market prices; it is the duty of the ac- countants appointed by the miners to see that this is actual- ly done; and they have access to the colliery books, for that purpose.
One may reasonably ask what better safeguard could be pro- vided. According to some, it might be imagined that these the service of those minimum. and trade busy by-product plants were verita- mines. The main interest of the owner is to reduce his enough to require a full working ble gold mines, and that every week. They would like to see colliery posscased them. Actual working costs to a minimum, not this, not only for the sake of the ly, they consist in the main of only to enable him to obtain a men but for the sake of their coke-oven plants: the coal con- reasonable rate of interest on
the capital expended, but at the own shareholders... and them sumed at them is a very small
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An SOS at Sea.
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for
ble, and the Conference is at the -moment-engaged on-the task-of- assimilating the proposals put
same time to put him in a posi- selves, for it seems to be com- proportion of the total output
of the country. Torward by Britain, France and
that pletely overlooked tion to pay the highest wages owners have any duty to anyone
In point of fact in many dis- Italy, or choosing one of them AN APT REFERENCE
possible. as the framework in which to
To lay a pit idle because trade employ.
other than the miners in their tricts there are few or none of these plants; and certainly by- seek qualitative limitation. The In his first speech as Chancellor may be slack is a most expensive question is whether accord can of the University of Hongkong. His proceeding, so the owner con- have planned, bored, sunk shafts are making losses.
Those who with their savings product plants have been and be secured in regard to qualita-Excellency Sir Andrew Caldecott tinues working and paying and in this way have spent The other allegation is equally tive limits on maximum tonnage made apt and effective use of a and gunnage. Such an agree- paraphrased version of the "Tre wages to the miners even though hundreds of thousands of pounds without foundation.
he may be losing money. so familiar to
He before the miner has even set ment would reduce the cost of lawny" refrain,
The prices at which coal is sold competition and prevent naval Cornishmen, from Hawker's "Song hopes that when trade improves foot in the pit; who advance to subsidiary selling agencies of the Western Men." Sir Jona- he will be in a position to re money to pay wages to miners are closely scrutinised by the nations having continuously to than Trelawny, the noted prelate, coup himself for the losses which for years before there is a pros- nuditors appointed by the work- renew their navies owing to new is the hero of that refrain, which he has sustained.
for the purpose of the types and inventions being runs:
The last five years tell a sad deserve equal consideration.
pect of profit-these, too, surely men
wages ascertainments, and this adopted clsewhere which would
story. The majority of districts make existing vessels useless.
But it is not, in the long run, provides an effective guarantée have been working at a loss, the colliery owners who pay the against the selling agency Japan places much importance
Sir Jonathan was loyal to King which means that the consumer wages; it is the coal. If the making more than legitimate on "equality of security," bul
has been receiving both Britain and the United James until the first declaration of price both to owner and miner.
coal at a conl is not sold (which means, profits. States appear disinclined to indulgence In 1867, when, yield on this point. As Lord Bishop, he used his influence with Lothian has pointed out, they his clergy against the King, and,
Cornish land-owner, resisted SHORT-TIME working where say that the history of the past the attempt to assemble a packed
wages are on the minimum five years proves that Japan al-Parliament. In the following year, must spell hard times ready has security, because her he signed a petition against the many. But pay-tickets selected To the wireless operator at sea centration. Letter by letter the du co-signatories have not felt second declaration of indulgence, for publication because they the reception of a distress liberato words are written down and strong enough to interfere with and was in consequence imprisoned are exceptionally low do not call is a moment of intense in his responsibility. hor violations of the Nine in the Tower of London with tell the whole story. There drama. The SOS may come to Power Treaty: that the United Archbishop Sancroft and five other is almost invariably some him suddenly from the silence of, It may happen that an operator, having lind Httle or nothing to do for States has two oceanic fronts to Bishops, eventually sharing their valid reason for them, and, a great ocean. It may come as hours in open waters, is electrified protect, one in the Atlantic and triumphant acquittal. The refrain, when circumstances warrant, a despairing whisper amid the by a sudden S 05. the other in the Pacific; while "And shall Trelawny die?" were a fair adjustment; and they radio clamour of crowded Seldom, as has apparently happen-
can always be Britain has the immense line of sung by the men of Cornwall, who
In either case it is an ed with than waters.
the Parings, is there seem to have assembled during the
sumclent time for the wireless opera- her Empire communication run-Blahop's short imprisonment. It balanced by other pay-tickets unforgettable experience. ning from the North Sea to New has, however, been suggested that which show exceptionally high His ship is nearing port, per- tor to send out his message. Zealand, through the Mediter-It is probable that a similar threat pay..
haps. Scores of ships are work- ranean or the Cape of Good was heard sixty years, previously, The men naturally look for a ing messages to and from shore. ONE night in January 1920, steam- which closes up enlarged pores. All Hope; while Japan has only the when John Trelawny, grandfather reasonably high rate of re- The intermingling notes from a multi- the count of Rio de Oro, N.W. Africa skins need a nourishing cream single front facing the Pacific. of the Bishop, was imprisoned by muneration, and this naturally tude of various transmitters, growl- there came to
ing, singing, stuttering, whistling, S O S. It waR from the French For those who have a full face or It is considered, therefore, that the House of Commons for oppos evokes from the community a become confused in a hideous caco-liner l'Afrique, which had struck a sensitive skín · VELVA ¦ CREAM- Japan's demand for naval parity in the election of Sir John Ellot full measure of sympathy.
phony.
lightship near La Rochelle, in tho Bay mad: of Biscay. At the present time the British It is as if the cther had gond is, in fact, a demand not for should be patted on after the skin.
owners are criticised on four Into this bedlam of sound comes a This position showed her to be has been cleansed and toned.
"equality of security," but for For
thin call for aid from a ship in des- about 1,200 miles away, dead reckon- decisive supremacy in the Pack-practice each lay down five keels principal grounds: It is alleged prats need-5 0 5.5 OS, SO S.... Ing. It would bare inken the ship fic. Japan, on the other hand, to three. As against this, how-that:
For a short time it may appear to in which I served a small Portugu is afraid that an Anglo-Ameri- over, it is pointed out that in The wages they pay are too be unheard and unheeded as it strives eso tramp about five days to get
low;
fur attention through the hopeless there. Obviously
could can combination, especially if this era of power politics, finan
They are in
nothing. supported by Russia, might clal resolution is as important force her to abandon or "limitas naval morale, and Japan may her expansion on the mainland decide to put the issue to the and her desire to expel non- test of practice before abandon- Asiatic Powers from influence ing her attempt at parity. The
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It
ing at a sluggish eight knots off
me an unexpected
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some way de din. frauding the miners by making. But someone hears it. Imperativo. But, listening to the 'messages, one- hidden profits;
ly this operator calls to all ships in was kept in touch with the grim la vicinity to cease trafle, no matter drama that was being enacted so far alow or bow
Away. Finally there came a message "reorganising" Then, how important.
others pass the command to which read!: "There is no panie. All yet others, and so the news is flashed, is calm." They persist in their refusal over a wide area. And then the After that there was silence. to meet the miners for national wireless notes begin to die. Wavd They were the last words sent out wages negotiations.
aftor wave of sound subsides, by the gallant operator of P'Ariqué So, in the stillness, the distressed before she annk. Two days Inter the THINK it must be clear to all we go without an out its momentos curtain descended on a grim drama, 'that owners would like to see
message without interference, ang The wireless nows service to ships Tho wireless operators in the re-stated that there had been a loss, of wage rates rafaed well above the 'ceiving ships are studien of grim con2 660 lives.
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tion has been put forward that Conforenco may be decisive, eventually the governing factor But the portents at the moment] may be the purse; that it may are not such as to encourage tha be easier for Japan to acquiesce hope that anything like a satis-I in a ratio lower than parity if factory adjustment of the issues Britain and the United States in involved will be achieved.
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