HOMELAND MINERS
8 HOURS’ REPEAL PROPOSED. (A.P.A. & SudJ LONDON, March 23. In the Commons, private members day was devoted to Air Greenall’s (Labour) Coal Alines Bill, for the repeal of the Eight Hours Act, 1926. He contended that Air Baldwin had reduced the miners’ standard of living below pre-war, yet had not brought the promised prosperity in the industry. Ah’ Lloyd George attacked the Government’s handling of the coal stoppage, and declared that the Eight Hours Act was costing ten million yearly in unemployment pay, as well as ten to twenty million through the reduced price of coal. Mr King, replying, said that many of the coal industry’s ills were due to Air Lloyd George’s methods of giving way to the miners in every dispute. The Eight Hours Act reduced the cost of production by 2/6 per ton, and enabled many mines to keep going, which otherwise would have had to close owing to foreign competition. The Bill was rejected by 154 to 127.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 March 1928, Page 7
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