PROTECTION FOR WORKERS
FAIR WAGES CLAUSE
iWHY IT WAS REJECTED,
(DOTTED, PRES3 ASSOOIATIOK—COPSBIGHT.) (REDTER'S TELEGRAM.) (Received Ist May, 9 a.m.)
LONDON, 30th April,
Tho Standing Committee o! the House c£ Commons, dealing with the Bill increasing the Government guarantee for the Wembley Exhibition to £1,900,000, rejected a Labour amendment to compel fair wages to be paid to persons employed in connection with, the Exhibition by. ( the operation, of a fair wages clause, and providing for an industrial Court to decide any dispute. Sir P. Cunliffe-Lister disclaimed, hostility to the amendment, but said it was impossible to accept it'at'present, owing to the conditions in some of .the contracts -which contained a fair wage clause. Such a •clause was included wherever new contracts were made.. The Government had gone out of its way to approach the colonial authorities to get them' to take the same course..
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 100, 1 May 1925, Page 7
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144PROTECTION FOR WORKERS Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 100, 1 May 1925, Page 7
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