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THE COAL CONFLICT.

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Contentions of the Respective

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responding with our pro- ductivity! Why cannot we get more out of the pool ?" Where- upon it might be the duty of the Board to bring sure to hear upon the miners of

pres The following are the views of another district to increase their the miuers and owners respective-productivity. ly as set forth at a conference last month under the Premier's presidency:

of

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THE MINERS.

to give up his profits in order to make good the losses of someone clae. He would not do so antess he Was compelled to do so by Act of Parliament. The institution of a pooling of profita cannot have any other rosult to than destroy completely the officiency of the industry. It would be destructive of all in- centive, and in the long run be bound to bring the industry to ruin. as any industry must be ruined when the individual does not stand or fall by the result of his own efforts.

We should require a completa change in human nature, and that is not immediately likely.

The man whose profits are made up will say to himself: "It; does not matter whether I work hard, it does not matter whether I put my plant or machinery in order, it does not matter what I Bo: I will get my profits!"

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Supposing you asked overy miner who earned over and above the minimum wage to contribute that amount to make good the deficiency of those who wero below the minimum. I ask Mr. Hodges, what output doca he think he would get at the end of a week of working under those conditions?

"It is unreasonable to ask men to put forward their bost efforts if the result of those efforts is going to be devoted to making, good to othere what they have) not tried to make good for them- setvos."

You would gel, not only de- crease of output, and the couse-) quent decrease of profit, but you) would make the conditions of the industry such that no man from outside would put money into the sinking of a new colliery.

PRICES AND THE PUBLIC. The price that the collieries could sell their coal at would be who had to buy the coal would so high that either the public

bo severely penalised, or they INDIVIDUAL. PROFITS.

would have to do without it, and Where, under these circumour foreign markets would in- stances, does the prospect of evitably be loet. inefficiency come in?

Provided tho levy

Same

Spokesman: Mr. Frank lodges.

I think the effect (of forming a Th individual colliery com- wages pool by means to a tonnage The coal in the bad districts, an panp's profits under our scheme levy) would be of the well as the coal in the good dis- would not be limited to so much nature exactly as if you pooled tricts, is required for human can-per ton upon their colliery's cut-the whole of the profits and sumption. Therefore; it is fair put. that the men who get the coal sufficiently accurately estimated.

was divided them up. should be paid the same wage for the individual colliery company's experience that we have had in "We know perfectly well from the exercise of the same amount profit would still be very largely the past few years what a bad of energy.

determined by the capacity of effect the excess profits duty has This means the establishment that colliery company itself.

Nations Wagos Board.

had upon trade generally. Well, which implies national financial than was proposed under the coal nature as that.

We do not propose, any more thus is a proposal of the same unification, L., a national wages Control Agreement Act to inter- pool.

fere with the profit-making capa-fruits of his labour for the benefit "You deprive a man of the Such unification

could he city of a particular mine. segured by voluntary agreement.

of someone else who has not The smooth working of such a laboured to produce. in normal lines, if the owner system supposes that the owners were as well organised as the fare prepared to do on their parta wages pool) is as impracticable I think that that scheme [off But the times are not what the workmen are prepared as pooing the whole of the mines. normal, and Government assis- tuners therefore necessary.

to do on theirs, viz., to give a It may be different in a small share of their good fortune to degree, but in essence it is the To help in the establishment of their less fortunate brethren." the pool the workmen, on their

same and as far as the coal- part, are willing to make sacriminers prepared to contribute to as absolutely repugnant to them

How much. in fact, are the owners are concerned, the one is! tices one for the other. May itwards a wages pool? not he suggested that the owners are also prepared

to make sacrifices,

*mbers.

That is the oral assumption underlying it (the pool). If it can be shown by some practical means that the moral assumption can bo backed up by technical ar rangemerile I think it will have to be admitted that it holds thei fieid.

PROPUSAL DETAILED.

How do we propose that it shall be worked out practically?

as the other." If they alone were to form the You inflict upon different in- pool they would have to accept a dividuals different amounts of their total wages bill, or an aver- reduction of nearly 24 per cent. in penalty.

age of 4s. 24, per man per shift. you were going to levy is, ton Supposing you were to say that This would wipe out the deficien- upon the outpat of all collieries cy on the industry and equalise alike, the man who is making 29

wakes.

a to would he paying 50 por But so large a reduction is cent, of his profits; the man who unthinkable.

was making 3s. a ton would be paying 33 1-3 per cent.

THE OWNERS.

TO SAVE THEIR SKINS; owners to prevent a loss on their The efforts thut are inade by collieries are very great and made purely and simple to save their own skins.

If that (the fear of a toss) is re- moved, the whole level efficiency in collieries would be so reduced that the industry would either!

The number of collieries that Spokesman: Mr. Evan Williams. undoubtedly increase.

would not make profits would

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Now, suppose we were to give 2s. I mention that figure because that is the figure which is in my mind for the moment. Suppose We propose the appointment of we give 2s a day, that is £30 a National Coal Board, consisting 000. Contribution to the deficit of 26 representatives of each side per annum. Two shillings is 30 nien of high standing in, and per cent, of our pre-war standard. great knowledge of, the industry That figure brings us within in all its phases.

measureable distance of the cost The function of the Coal Board of living. would be, first of all, to impose a "We ask the owners to make become bankrupt or would be an levy upon the total tonnage raised a contribution; we ask Govern absolute charge upon the nation in every mine. This levy would ment to make up the balance, so if the nation had to keep it going. by paid into the wages pool that we can be carried through Instead of being an asset our Payments out of the pool in relief until such time as we have got collieries will soon become a of low wages at the poorer col-into a position where we are once burden to the country. fies would be made by the Wages again able to fend for ourselves." Board only whore, in their judz. ment. the pit was yielding its fair share buth of profit to the pool and of productivity to the country put into operation a national pool

It would be quite impossible to You would have, in THE MAKE BEST Thus the Coal Board would be by voluntary means; it would sequence, to increase the levy per came to the conclusion that aidevitably mean the continuance only little by little, but rapidly entitled to withhold grants if it require legislation, and would ton upon all until gradually-not JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the that the miners were not doing

colliery could not be worked of financial control

reduce over the Perhaps you would go except at most digestive food for Infants which keeps good in quality during their duty, or that the manage based upon a national average world be crushed out of extist-

a permanent lose, or industry.

the number of collieries making a Hot Weather; (2) LACTOSE (Milk Sugar) for sweetening the foods meut was inefficient.

South Wales cannot pay a wage tribute to the pool that they

profitand, therefore, able to con of Infants and Dyspeptice; (3) MILFORD-MCGRATH FLUID INSECTICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fleas, Mosquitoes,

without paying to every worker once by the weight of the levy. Bugs, Files and all other Insect Pests in Summer days: and' (4) soming to the National Board 8d. a day more than the industry "Jeau imagine colliery owners in the coalfield something likes 2s. JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA and stating that certain collieries can afford. The Yorkshire miner PRICE OF RIDE AT SHANGHAI,

must be, as it were, parasitically would have to put his profits into collieries, and they would ask for South Wales owner to get money urged their members to limit the imposing upon the rest of the the pool in order to enable the the Rios Guilds of Shanghai have According to the Chinese Press an inquiry to be made as to the out of the pool to cover his losses price of rice to $11, and not to let cause thereof,"

and get his same amount of profit.it, exceed that sum. The author-

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On the other hand, a body of minere might well say, through their district association:

in

it that we

How

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CHOICE OF

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are not get profit in this country, would not to lasus proclamations supporting ting a wage advantage cor- be prepared, to put it very mildly, this proposal.

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