National Coal Board (Negotiating Machinery)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 19 June 1947.

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Photo of Mr John Boyd-Carpenter Mr John Boyd-Carpenter , Kingston upon Thames 12:00, 19 June 1947

Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that these negotiations have been dragging on for months, and that a member of the Coal Board, Mr. Ebby Edwards, told the Association that the National Union of Mineworkers would not allow the Board to grant recognition to the Association? Is not conduct of that sort, affecting a public corporation, within the responsibility of the right hon. Gentleman's Ministry?