ONUS ON GOVERNMENT
MINES DISPUTE NOW POLITICAL.
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 15th March. The miners' rejection of the employers' offer to their demand r>r the passing of the Minimum Wage Bill is regarded by the Press generally as placing the onus on' the Government of avcrtin" a strikeThe "Daily Express" says that the Bill will be. fought by Liberals and Conservatives strenuously, and will possibly idvolye. the defeat and resignation of the GovernmentThe BUI would .give Uie..miners Jyglier-
pay than the employers offer, aud would be based on the increase in the cost of living, which is now about 79 per cent, above that of 1914.
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Evening Post, Volume 65, Issue 65, 17 March 1924, Page 7
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107ONUS ON GOVERNMENT Evening Post, Volume 65, Issue 65, 17 March 1924, Page 7
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