BRITISH POLITICS
THE INCREASE IN I N'IvMIM.OVAfEXT EIGHT HOURS ACT C"AXXOT RE blamed ArOR.E COAT me. VO MARKETED. (N.Z. and An.-t. Press Assn, ami Sun. (Received Fob. if). i.l p ni.) LONDON. Feb. «>. Mr Neville Chamberlain, .’plying to the Labor amendment in the Ad-dress-in-Reply. said it was fallacious to blame the Eight Hours Aerjor ti'.e increase in unemployment. Ihe Aet had reduced the price oi eoal by 2s Pd per ton, and had resulted in more eoal being mined and marketed. The unemployment was not general, hut was concentrated in the basic industries—coal, iron, and steel—in vliicft there was a permanent surplus ' i labor. The Ministry of Labor was operating several training schemes, with a view to the transference of the men from the “black" spots of trartnployment. to other districts and other employment. Ninety-two per cent ot the ex-miners who were trained to woodwork', plastering and painting had obtained work. Nearly a thousand miner tmincers had gone to the Dominions. Air Walthead said “it was rather a cruel joke to throw ex-miners into the competitive market after a few weeks’ training in new occupations.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GIST19280211.2.55
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10508, 11 February 1928, Page 9
Word Count
185BRITISH POLITICS Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10508, 11 February 1928, Page 9
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in