CORN PRODUCTION BILL.
WAGE AMENDMENT DEFEATED
LONDON, July 23
An urgent Government whip was issued regarding Mr .Wardle's ■amend-' merit: : The Government regarded 25s as the minimum wage for agriculturists as fundamental to the Bill. ProGovernment, newspapers warned their opponents not to create a crisis. Mr Prothero said the Government could not accept Mr Wardle's amendment. If he pressed for a division the Government must stand or fall by the result. The Bill was essential to our existence and safety. The minimum wage was.,-irreducible, but the Wages Board could increase it. The proposed' increased wage imposed ,a payment of an-additional £40,000,000 on the farmers.
The late Government had miscalculated the submarine menace, and the changes and shortages of the world's supply of grain. 1 We could not afford a third miscalculation.'
The amendment was defeated by 301 votes to 102.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9053, 25 July 1917, Page 6
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