EIGHT HOURS' BILL. BRITISH MINING ASSOCIATION'S OBJECTIONS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 08, 10 January 1908, Page 7

EIGHT HOURS' BILL. BRITISH MINING ASSOCIATION'S OBJECTIONS.

COAL OUTPUT. MUST BE REDUCED CONSIDER ABLY. By Telegraph.— Press Aasooiation.— CopyrithV (Received January 10, 9 a.m.) ' LONDON, 9th J.a«u«ry. An influential deputation, representing the Mining Association of Great Britain, urged various objections against th« Mines Eight Hours Bill of the Government, especially declaring that its passage must reduce the coal supply by 10 to 13 per cent., and also increase the prices. The Right Hon. Herbert Gladstone, ' Home Secretary, replied that Parliament desired a limitation of houvs, He admitbed that the result would be to raise the prices and promised to do .his best ■ to find a basis of agreement satisfactory to employer and employed. 1 - r - Gladstone introduced a Miners' Eight Hours BDI last session, and\t was read a first time. Represeatatives at the Coal Owners' Association md the Miners' Federation have been in conference since with the object of ' rendering the measure, if passed in .' 1908, workable and % acceptable to both, parties. The Biil exempts officials supervisors, and employers in positions of authority, and provides tha means ot suspending the measure in case of national emergency, or an industrial crisis leading to a dearth of coal. •