MINERS' EIGHT HOURS.
1 § A TEST dAgiS. feXTBiVSION'iY ONE HOUR, ON 60 DAYS. IBj Ttlcßraph.-i'rcaS A«soelatloft.~Odt>yr!iilit\l (Rec. kaguk 20,10.35 p.m.) London, Atigitst 20. The stipendiary magistrate at HHOnddtl, tile ceritro in Solith Wdles, Has given judgment in a case which was brought to test the section of the Eight Hdure in MiUes Actj which provides that oil not' more than sixty day's a yoar tho hollf§ niay bo extended) but not by more than one hour a day. In this.case tho men had refused td work an extra hour on two sjlecifib days.' The inliglstrdte held that there shoiild l>o tiifte holirs , work a day on sixty days annually, and that on each of the remaining days the working time should t>6 eight liotits. ' judgment was given for tho employers. An appeal was eiitcred.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 592, 21 August 1909, Page 5
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134MINERS' EIGHT HOURS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 592, 21 August 1909, Page 5
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