CRIPPS AND THE MINERS’ WEEK
LONDON, May 3
Five days a week down a coal mine was enough for anyone, said Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade, in a speech in support of the Labour candidate for Bath. A five-day week was as much as any human "being should be asked to do, he said- , . , It was no good complaining aboiu miners’ absenteeism unless miners’ conditions were made tolerable. He believed that the miners of Britain were now ready to do the unpleasant job of getting the needed coal. He hoped that before long increased mechanisation and better organisation of the British industry would lead to lower prices and a higher standard of living for Britain.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 May 1947, Page 5
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