MAY DAY.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3778, 2 May 1919, Page 2

MAY DAY.

LABOUR PROCESSIONS IN

BRITISH ISLES

LLOYD GEORGE SENDS LETTER

(Per Press Association.) (Received May 2. 1 p.m.) •' London, May 1. There were many May Day processions in London and tho provinces. In Dublin there was a complete stoppage of all industry. France was also at a a Lauds till for the day, except for the Government ami municipal .services and the railways.

Sir R. S. Home, presiding at a meeting of,.the Comitteo of the National Industrial Conference, at Whitehall, read a letter from Premier Lloyd George, stating that foreign countries were looking to Britain to give a. lead in founding a better industrial order. Tho Prime Minister expressed his approval of tho 48 hours -week and the minimum wage fixed by ihe Commission. Elasticity was required in particular industries such as agriculture, in which seasonal and other conditions necestated special consideration, and for workers such as seamen and domestic servants, where the -48 hours' week was impossible. The Act should otherwise apply to all industries wherein the legal limitation of hours was practicable. He hoped a solution of the urgent problem of tlie unemployed would be the first question claiming the National Industrial Council's attention. „It was hpped the Council would be established at the very earliest possible moment. He was sure it would be of great value in assisting the Government in improving industrial conditions.

In the House of Commons, Mr Amery. in answer to a question, promised to place in the library of the House of Commons a copy of the Queensland Government's publication, "Socialism at Work."