LABOUR WORLD.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17632, 8 December 1922, Page 8

LABOUR WORLD.

* In the Bi,Me S °° S ' ( ?" tl " b «'«■ George La nß bury(L alow ,n ®7' * Rented a petition on behalf employed marchers, asW * Uafor the « tepresentativea t O P T Usi4 ' 1 the bar of the House anil 4t s h«™«„ a. THE FORTY-EIGHT HOUR WEEK, STATEMENT BY BBITISH MINISTER,. T LONDON, December 6. In the House of Common* Sir Mm tague Barlow, Minister of Labour nounced that, pending farther uoLT eration, it was not proposed to ißtrdiice legislation legalising the f orh . eight hours' working week on the Kim of the Washington Conference, a, was not awaro that most Bummu countries had already legalised ft, forty-eight hours > week. The Couvq. tion had been ratified by only a vtr -' small number of countries such y Greece, India, and Czecho-SlovakU. STRIKES IN AUSTRALIA. LOSS TO WORKERS. (Amtralian and N.Z. C»bl« AasociitimJ MELBOURNE, December 7, The Commonwealth Statistician ijj issued a return showing that there mt« 102 strikes in the last quarter, ing 30,000 workers, and resulting is j loss of wages amounting to £207,194, i * == ■ J