EIGHT HOURS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1143, 26 March 1910, Page 2

EIGHT HOURS.

A SINISTER POLICY

BULLIED AND CAJOLED INTO IT

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PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. '"Received Ma.veh 'Jβ, B.OU a.m.) London, March 25. •Sir Walter Runci'man, President of the Poard of Education, cpeaking at South Shield*, said that the eight hours' principle had already dislocated trade and rendered thousands idle. Sh-uld a great strike occur, the suffering caused hv it would penetrate hundreds of thousands of homes. Nobody had heeded Lord Herbert Gladstone's advice to consumers to bestir themselves to prevent the passage of the Eight Hours Bill. Consumers wore chiefly to blame, but both political parties were culpably responsible for allowing themselves to be bullied and cajoled into adopting such a sinister policy.