LOOKING TO BRITAIN
SOLVING LABOUR PROBLEMS
FOREIGN COUNTRIES SEEK A LEAD. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIQHT.) (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received May- 2, 11 a.m.) LONDON, Ist May. Sir R. S. Hor'ne (Minister of Labour), presiding over a committee of the National Industrial Conference at Whitehall, read a letter from Mr. Lloyd George, stating that foreign countries are looking to Britain to give a lead in founding better industrial order. '• He approved, of the Bill for a forty-eight hour week and a minimum wage to be fixed by a Commission. Elasticity would be required in particular industries, such as agriculture, in which seasonal and other conditions necessitated special consideration, and in such cases as seamen and domestic servants, in which a forty-eight-hour week would be impossible.
Mr. Lloyd George added that the Act should otherwise apply to all industries in which a legal limitation of hours was practicable. He hoped the solution of the urgent problem of the unemployed would be the first question to claim the attention of the projected National Industrial Councils, and hoped these councils would be established as quickly as possible. He felt sure they would prove to be of great value in assisting the Government to improve industrial conditions.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 102, 2 May 1919, Page 7
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202LOOKING TO BRITAIN Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 102, 2 May 1919, Page 7
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