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Miners' Leader
Pessimistic
On Coal Future
Australian Associated Press
LONDON. Saturday.— A sombre pic
ture was painted by Mr. Arthur Horner
in his presidential address to the South
Wales Miners' Federation annual meet
ing at Cardiff- on Thursday.
'The ruling classes in all the com
batant countries are more and more
resorting to Nazi or totalitarian
methods,' he said.
'The sapidity with which the Nazi
methods are being applied here must
exercise the minds of thoughtful trade
unionists.'
Referring to the drift of men from
the mining industry, he said that the
industry was not producing the amount
of coal bein'g consumed, therefore it
was eating into its stocks and threaten
ing serious consequences for the in
dustry and disastrous results for the
people next winter.
Miners who for a long while had
been unable to get employment were
leaving their jobs at the rate of 2.000
a month to take up work in other in
dustries because of the low wages and
poor conditions in the mining indus
try
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