BRITISH INDUSTRIES
THE FACTORIES BILL A COMPREHENSIVE MEASURE. (British Official Wireless.) Preei Association —By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, February 11. The . Home Secretary (Sir John Simon) moved the second reading in the House of Commons of the Factories Bill, a comprehensive measure of 152 clauses and four schemes. In giving the Bill a qualified welcome for the Opposition, Mr J. R. Clynes disclosed that it had been his ambition as a one-time ‘J half-timer ” and factory boy to bring in a measure revising Factory Acts, and his last communication as Home Secretary to Mr Ramsay MacDonald before the resignation of. the latter’s Labour Administration in 1931 had been a request for parliamentary time for the purpose. The BiU was one for treatment in .committee, when the Opposition, although they have many amendments to propose, would try to be helpful. Sir John Simon described the Bill as an effort to frame an improved charter for the protection of 7,000,000 men, women, and young persons and for the promotion of industrial efficiency and prosperity.
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Evening Star, Issue 22572, 13 February 1937, Page 17
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