THE EMPIRE EXHIBITION
GOVERNMENT GUARANTEE BBLL. LABOUR MOTION REJECTED. (Per Press Association) —Copyright.) LONDON, April 30. The Standing Committee of the House of Commons, dealing with the Bill increasing the Government guarantee in connection with the Wembley Exhibition to £1,900,000, rejected a Labour amendment compelling fair wages to be paid to persons employed at the Exhibition by the operation of a fair wage clause, and providing for an industrial court to decide any dispute. ~ , • i Sir John Cunliffo-Lister disclaimed hostility to the amendment, but said it was impossible to accept it at present, owing to the conditions of some contracts which contained a fair wage clause, and it was included wherever new contracts were made. The Government had gone out of its way to approach the Colonial authorities to gel them to take the same course.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10386, 4 May 1925, Page 6
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