COAL INDUSTRY

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 256, 27 September 1929, Page 7

COAL INDUSTRY

WORLD SITUATION.

CONFERENCE AT GENEVA. OPENING DAY, (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 26. The president and secretary of the Miners’ Federation left London yesterday for tho Conference of Coal Experts. which will open at Geneva on Monday. The conference has been summoned by the Economic Committee of the League of Nations for consideration of the world coal situation, and, in particular, suggestions conveyed in an interim report which, briefly, arc as follow: International agreements between producers should be arranged concerning output, markets and jirices. A special international committee representative of all interests —Governments’, employers’, miners’ merchants’ and consumers’ —should be set upMeasures should be taken tor assimilating, if not equalising, wages, hours and social conditions of labour, and the existing artificial restriction of trade in coal and artificial stimula of production should be abolished.

BRITISH COAL FOR CANADA

OWNERS MEET MR THOMAS.

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 26. Mr J. H. Thomas, Minister of Employment, to-day received at the Treasury about a dozen representative coalowners with whom he wished to discuss the question of selling British coal in Canada.

The meeting was a sequel to his recent visit to the Dominion, when he learned that large contracts for British coal could be obtained if the price were suitable. Among the coalowners present at the interview were Messrs Evan Williams, president, and Mr Lee, secretary, of the Coalowners’ Association.