BRITISH COAL MINES.
Emergency Bill Prescribing
Hours and Wages.
GOVERNMENT'S STEP.
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, July 5.
The Government introduced . into the House of Commons the Emergency Coal Bill, which was read a first time.
This step was taken by the Government in pursuance of its announcement, following on the failure of the miners and mineowners to reach an agreement, that it would make proposals of its own.
The main object of the bill is to avert a return to a seven-hours day, which otherwise would have come into operation next Wednesday, and to prescribe a day for 12 months, or until the operation of the agreement reached at the Geneva Conference, which prescribes a T\ -hours day, whichever period is shorter.
For that period the present wages must be continued. The Government desires the bill to be passed through all the Parliamentary stages by Tuesday.
The miners' executive has recommended the acceptance of the bill to the delegates to the conference, which is now sitting in London.
The owners are strongly opposed to the measure.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 157, 6 July 1931, Page 7
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