UNIONISTS AND NATIONALISTS.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 533, 28 March 1908, Page 2

UNIONISTS AND NATIONALISTS.

THE EIGHT HOURS' BILL. MINISTER DOES NOT ALLAY A DUKE AS A CAPITALIST. (Received March 28, 9.10 a.m.) London, March 27. • Th ° Hon. Augustine BirreU, speakmg au tlie House of Common! &- faed has refusal to allow the Union ft, tote hoisted over ,the grounds of the National schools, because no political symbol was permitted inlreThe Daily Telegraph characterised this decision as "disgraceful," and asks : "Why. should th! feelings of a loyal Unioniist be viola-ted in order to avoid tho faintest offence to the disloyal susceptibility of Nationalists?" Mr Herbert Gladstone, Home Secretary, mi his reply to a deputation from tire iron, steeJ, shipping, cotton, and other users of coal, declared that the Jl/ight Hours' Bill would provide <au additional half-hour above what would be allowed by a rigid bank-to-bank Eight Hours' Bill. The best experts would examine the economdo side with a view to reaching for a reasonable basis. The Ball was open to amendment, .and the Government would rasa no measure which, in its honest judgment, was thought to do harm, permanent or otherwise, to the industries o tfche country. Sir Hugh Bell, President of the Iron and Steel Institute, in thanking Mr Gladstone, declared that his speech did not allay their anxiety. _ London, March 27. . TJie Duke of Northumberland, in a speech at Newcastle, described the Peckham result as a miniature general - election, and emphasised the revulsion of feeling against the falsehoods about Chinese labour and the plunder of the Licensing Bill, which attached capital. He said that unless capital defended itself, the workmen might find themselves worse off.