BRITISH POLITICS. COAL MINERS' HOURS BILL FIRST READING.
PACIFIC ISLANDERS' PROTECTION Acr. By TeUgraph.-Presj Association.— Copynelit. LONDON, 21st December. In tho House of Commons yesterday the Coal Mines Eight Horns Bill was lead a first time. Mr. Winston Churchill, Parliamentary Under-Sccrelary 10 the Colonial Office, announced yesterday in the House of Commons that »'tho Government would not this session introduce any mpasuro to amend tho Pacific Islanders' Protection Act. It has been alleged that the effect of tho measure, i£ it becomes law, will be to reduce the coal production of tho United Kingdom by 39,000,000 tons annually, and increase- the working cost by eighteen pence per ton. While alive to ihe fact thai this -would b? so, Mr. Harbert Gladstone, Home Secretory, who is in charge of tho Bill, says that, it is the desire of Pnrlirmcnt that there should be a limitation of hours.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 45, 22 February 1908, Page 5
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