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DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1811, 1919.

HAVE THE MINERS A CASE?!

DEMANDS OF THE OTHER SIDE EXPLAINED

BY' SHAW DESMOND.]

Is there is a case for the coal miners! The sense of fairplay that distinguishes the middle-cinas Englishman bas, I

સૂપ- pose, prompted a question which has been put to me several times within the last few days. Having had the chance to get the miners point of view in a recent journey to the north. I will put the cast as it comes to them. The Daily Bapress has never been afraid to give the other Midy

Here

I Am dealing with the general question of the miners demands and not with the Yorkshire strike Their avicinal demands were (1) 30 per cent, increase in wages; (2) a six-hour day; and (3) mines rationalisation

The Prime Minister, in the first full dress debate lipon nationalisation, saith that to yield to these demands, night cripple our export trade in coal, lending to shipping paralysis. His main arg ment was the new mold Pocahontas

He stated that the price of cos! at the pit's grouth before the war was much the same na land, but that today Pocahontas

America

coal

at the pit custa about 11s a ton, against

che British 15. To give in to the niners means another 8 to 10%-added to the difference of 75., which means an advant age to the States of about las. a ton, still farther accentuating the big pull in cont resources the United States, which Tends by 1.400.000,00.000 tons. to Eng land's 1-46,000,000,000 and Germany s

415.000.000,000,

into

THE POCAHONTAS GHOST. The miners reply is that the facti gathered as the last Commission to inquire Pocahontas laid that, particular ghost, as it proved that Pocahontas cal earth tales

be sold at anything like the pribi of

coni, under normal an ditions, in any part of the world:

Then he claims that the difference be tween 11s, and las, is largely enoud by Profiteering. "Wood, so largely used in cual getting, has gone up nearly 400 per

during the war, and this

on to cost. the timber being

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The miner uy Let the Profiteer stand some of the dranght of the increased wages.) i am assured that thi failure of the Government to grapple with the prožteer has Iven the running More at the rout of labour iritation and *terviness.

To Mr. Lloyd George's claim that the miners only put in an eight-hour day the miner's reply is that while he naly puts in eight hours at the coal face, an extra hour is spent in getting to and from the face to the pit mouth, making nine hours.. This will apply to any length of day. worked.

PRICES AND WAGES,

Now roms the eternal irritant of prices and wages. In the Commons" debate is was pointed out that the coal miners had about 35 per cent, increase in wagen dür- ing the wa”. The miners do not deny this. The Scotch miners, for example. who

MON be taken as a fair average received immediately prior to the war any. Since then this s. has advanced to about 13 But the crest of living,

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according to the Board of Trade retureskell shows 120 per rent, increase as on Febru ary 1st, last. This leaves a deficiency of

per cent for the Scotsman.

Ний contends this does not represent the deficiency. He is forced to take food sab- stitutes carrying much

nutrient values since the war.

and

he Dok

On the broader question of nationalisas tion its opponents claim that it would (1) destroy private enterprise: (2) send In the cost to the

the consumer

(3) be unfair to the owners.

The miner replies the rt and third: I'm het concerned with private enterprise. I am out for the best for the nation, not for a class. Let the nation own the mines.

On the second point he claims that nu

diffeni hins,, really shown wher, the

in..

between the cost at the pits mouth and the cost to the consumer comes He claims that the difference between 18%, and 50%. is preposterous. He claims that by the abolition of the owner and middleman he can save the cofisumér much of this difference."

On the other hand, the miner has two. points to meet: (1) The very real danger of a bureaucracy under nationalisation, some of "Which we have seen during the war; and (2) Mr. Lloyd George's claim that the profts of all the collieries in the United Kingdom for the five years before the war only averaged is, a ton.-Express.

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GERMANY WORKING

FURIOUSLY.

FOURTEEN-HOUR DAY, AND

STRIKES..

NO

The Lerman working man is refusing

to work ony eight hours a day,

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Germany is out again to heat the IN APRO satu the sellior member of a City Arm Le a Daily Express representative recently. have just returned from:

commercial connec tiona in Switzerland. I met there the ebairman of important firm öt Bachime manufacturers. He was ob vioudy a German, with his square head and bad French, and for once I pretend ed to be pro-Gerinan, and spoke with bim in his own language.

He let the cat out of the bug. All the labour in the Schwarzwild and in South Germany, where the Allies have no representatives, he told me, has' re- fused to recognise the eight hours' day. The men are working furiously, without pressure of any sort, up to fourteen hours a day, in order to be ready to enter. the world's markets, again at the first opportunity.

This German chairman of Swiss concern simply chuckled with glet when Our good German workingu know whence Fiches come the work of

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to buy in the cheapest market. possible by ricans of strikes, she is work, Germany is, out, I repent, to pro ing as hard ng human strength and brain vide that market, and cur eight hour in allow to capture her old commercial dustrial day will spell disaster for, ug il

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