HOURS OF LABOUR.
EIGHT HOUR DAY IN BRITAIN. A BILL REJECTED. London, May 1. The House of Commons, by 223 votes to 128, rejected a motion by Mr. Buchanan, Labour member, who moved the second reading of a private member’s bill based on the Washington Eight House Convention, providing that the hours of labour in industrial ■occupations. except seamen ami farm labourers, should not exceed 48 weekly. Mr. Kirkwood, in seconding the notion, vigorously protested against the efforts of engineering employers to increase hours of labour. Mr Clarry (Conservative), in moving the rejection of the measure, declared that the bill would injure industry and cause unemployment. The provisions of the Washington convenvention could only bo effectively introduced by simultaneous legislative motion in all countries whose representatives signed th e convention.— K Reuter j
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 126, 4 May 1925, Page 5
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