FORTY-EIGHT HOUR WEEK
LABOUR BILL REJECTED. iPer Press Association —Copyright.) * LONDON, May 2. The House of Commons, by 223 votes ±o 128, rejected a motion by Mr G. Buchanan (Labour), who moved the second reading of a private members Bill based on the Washington Eight Hours Convention, providing that the hours of labour in industrial occupations, exS cept seamen and farm labourers, should not exceed 48 weekly. Mr Kirkwood. m seconding the motion, vigorously protested .against the efforts of engineering employers to increase .the hours oi labour. Mr it. G. Clarry (Conservative), m moving its rejection, declared the Bill * would injure industry and cause unemployment. The provisions of the \\ ashmgton Convention could be effectively introduced only by simultaneous legislative action in all countries whose representatives had signed the Convention.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10386, 4 May 1925, Page 5
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