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THE HONGKONG 'DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17TH 1919.

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THE COAL' DISPUTE.

A STAB IN THE BACK.

LORD ABERCONWAY'S SPEECH.

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JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN

STEAMTES

A meeting of shareholders of various industrial companies was held at Shel feld, on July 28th, under the presidency of Lord Aberconway for the purpose of considering the industrial situation as affected by the disturbances in the colliery TJILIWONG trade caused by the present state of up-

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16th Sept

16th Sept.

28th Supt..

79th Sept

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of his TJITAROEM... The chairman, in the course speech, said: We are met here to dia cuss the situation which has suddenly arisen in the coal trade. I am not going to use strong language against those who bave dealt this stab in the back to the nation, at a time when we all hoped that overy British patriot would unite in

to build og

the shattered resources belping to of our country.

believe these sporadic

but dangerous strikes have arison partly through blunders and misunderstandings that the older, more experi

is clear

and

Minerals Louder uf

that has happened

the opposed to bey would never

bey

have entouraged a strike on the trampery issues which appear to have brought it about. The difference between the Coa! Controller's 10

advance and the cant. per

14.3.

3 per cent which the coal owners were willing to give is too trivial

to the action of certain revolution-- ry spirits in trying wreck the mines

to

the by stopping the pumps and

fans, no words could be too strong to condemn them. From the miners' own point of view it is an act of insanity to enin their own means of livelihood. Happily, most of the pits

have been saved, as wiser but in other counsels" "bave prevailed cases the men will be the sufferers. Under the Act of Parliament regulating

coul control, the mine-dwner stands to lose very little. The yery

The capital loss.. if any, must fall срок the cation, of whom the miners themselves form an important

All part these attempts to attack what is called Capital will recoil with terrible force

classes. the against working-c ing that intelligent men belonging to res ponsible trade unions should allow them- selved to be dictated to

It.

inexperienced bot-head handful of

young SACIF who are apparently as ignorant of economical. questions us, they are indif- ferent to the interests of the pourer classes of our people, who depend for all their comfort, and much of their happiness. or cheap fuel, and the cheap goods and food which cannot be provided unless coal

is produced in abundance, and at the lowest possible price.

of the -consid

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The extraordinary proceedings. Sankey Commission, and their cred report which the Government are faced with, are largely responsible for the present condition of things. commercial community does not know what credence to place in the statements of this

ais report, and probably the great mass of

do believe in the re People port at all." Discussing the uestion

qu who will bear the increased cost of coal Lord Aberconway said: Who is

WA : going

not

of

to bear it? Is it to come out of the taxes For out of of the consumer's pocket! It must be paid in the long run by those who use coal, und

should

ould give every man and woman in this country cause for thinking, and not only thinking, but acting and using what influence he has at the polls, and elsewhere, to kill this agitation which in my opinion, persisted in, may drive this country to commercial ruin.. The nation is dopen- dent on the largest possible output of coal for carrying on its own industries.

of

THE PRESENT POSITION.

firm what say. Apper cup

if

What is the present position. We are going to have reduced hours worked at the nines, and we are actually told by peuple who pose na rational human beings that the roen will get a much coal out in six bours as formerly they did in eight. The thing is childish, and the experience overy miner and of every colliery man- ager will ly we have

hands of a th 8 got into of officials of group of do not want to say

tho Minera

Federa- anything against them personally know some of them, and believe they are sincere, well-meaning men. I know miners very well as individuala. I have mixed with thousands of them, and I have always found them respectable, religions, Red- sible, and intelligent mea, men who would

be the last to wish to

revolutionise their trade or country. them own property.

glad

tion.

pof

to get more wages, of course, but they are indiferent to the needs of the coun- try How is it that these extreme met M rule the roost and represent these sen- sible, level-headed miners? The real rea- is because miner son 1 not take the trouble to attend the lodge meetings where his representatives appointed. These meetings are

captured

few noisy, unscrupulous agitators. pass resolutions and appoint the officials, but the great mass of the miners tako

ake no part in the proceedings, and when there are national conferences you have what is called the card vote. These selected men of Bolshevik tendencies are put forward as representing the miners, whom se a matter of fact on many of these questions they do not represent at but they pull the wires." they and the public

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Dxamined. Claims Again the Steamer must be presented within 10 days of arrival, otherwise they will not be recognized.

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nipulate the card To this cou~ appear to think that really repre sent te

views of the miners of try. Pard is & fraud 20 for sa it claims to represent the opinion of the individual worker on particular ques tions I am confident that the minera a body, if properly

consulted and inform- ed of the facts, would reject any such policy as that which some of their fenders advantage themselves from their policy hands an industry of the kind, it will are now

puraujug

Ug, and which must lend Unpitel is a sensitive thing: it is based cause the collapse of that great odifice to, national disaster and react with terrible fores nooner or later

on credit and confidence, and at present of prosperity hailt up by individual the there are

millions miners themselves. They cannot be

of pounds' worth of margy and the talent of men like our- ordere which would have been placed by selves who are interested in business, and Post Box 113, different to the bitterness which the poor bal-owners for new machinery and plant wheatderstand business in a way that no will suffer next winter from the shortage of

2, Des Voeux Road Central. f every kind, but which have been stop-

Mrvent civil

do. The thing in felly, and I not bellave Parliament will pass any bill,

calliers

What

is more,. I do not

are so much in the demand on the part of the miner for An agitation of this kind may, of cours,

of the

nationalisation of the pits He injure capital it may be a certain extent man I do not believe myself that very well, se a rule, with those who

gets on destroy it, but one thing is certain, it nationalisation will some. It has never employ him, and in my opinion, the will never put capital into the pockels heet's success. Stite administration can whole movement is a purely artificial one of those agitators themselves. It may never compete acodentally with private engineered by our friend Mr. Emillie and injure the country, but they will get no administration, Depend on it, if the some of his colleagues on the Miners

(Continued at foot of nezi column.) Government sitempt to take into their Executive,

of fuel, they cannot be blindly selfish to

_W0|ped owing to the uncertainty which this

the interests of every class. but their own.

am quite certain that these miners do agitation has produced.

tenance of capital is so much in their

to the question of nationalisation, the will

vernment

not wish to destroy capital. The main yɛɛn say is that if that comen abɑut'i 10g 18b6470ment may do for on interests as in the interest of ourselves. Matically put a stop to all these believe the men want it. There is no real

4cial life of the working :

THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY.

APIONE

JONNO

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