BRITISH GOAL CRISIS

Evening Star, Issue 19290, 1 July 1926, Page 8

BRITISH GOAL CRISIS

HOURS EXTENSION BILL STORMY DEBATE IN COMMONS MR BALDWIN ATTACK!®. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, June 29. The House of Commons passed tlio second reading of tlio Miners Eight Hours Bill by 355 votes to 162, after a, stormy debate, in which the Laboritos constantly and angrily interrupted. Amongst other charges made, against the Government, Air J. Westwrfod (Labor) asked if Mr Baldwin had 200,0U0 shares in Messrs Baldwin’s, Lid., and whether ho had interfered with the Coal Com mission’s report by dictating what should appear. Other Labontcs asked if a member who had such a financial interest in the coal problem should bo allowed to vote. When the uproar subsided Air Baldwin said it was an unqualified misrepresentation to say that ho had interfered with the Commission’s report. It was true that ho licit! shares in Messrs Baldwin’s, Ltd., which represented the bulk of his investments. Ho could have become very wealthy durin'g tlio war from that block of shares, but he bad declined, and bad refused to invest abroad. He had received nothing from the shares for live years, and did not expect to. The conclusion of the Prime Minister’s speech was drowned in a storm of cheers and counter-cheers. —A. and N.Z. Cable. MINERS STAND FIRM. LONDON, June 20. The Miners’ Executive, after' a review of. the position on the _ coalfields, unanimously decided, to resist an increase in hours or a reduction in wages.—Reuter.