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Excerpt from Coal Nationalisation: Precis and Evidence Offered to the Coal Industry Commission Much more important than the question to whom the unworked mineral shall belong is the question who shall get it out and distribute it to the consumers within the country, on the high seas, and in other parts of the empire and the world. Before the war these consumers got as much coal as they cared to buy at prices at which they grumbled much as other buyers grumble, and the miners had wages and con ditions of labour at which they grumbled much as 'other classes of workers grumble. I believe that in the course of a generation the price of coal had risen somewhat in relation to other things, and that the extra amount paid by the consumers was not wasted, but went to improve the position of miners relative to other occupations, and that this improve ment was just what might be reasonably expected from increasing civilisation, and was not really grudged by the remainder of the people who had to pay for it. On the whole, there does not seem to have been very much to complain oi, except the general incompetence and stupidity of mankind, which makes all progress seem intolerably slow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.