BRITISH COAL BILL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 161, 27 June 1930, Page 8

BRITISH COAL BILL

LOROS’ AMENDMENT. COMMONS MAY* ACCEPT IT. [United Preu A«meiatien~By CableCopyright.] London, June 2d. Lobby opinion now expects the Government to accept the House of Lords’ amendment to the Coal Bill abolishing the district levy and propose to negotiate regarding tho spread over of hours. Thus there is every prospect of a settlement. An earlier cable stated: The House of Lords insisted by large majorities upon the amendments to the Coal Mines Bill which the House of Commons had rejected. Otic was., an amendment excluding the district levy, which Lord Salisbury, on behalf of tho Conservatives, declared was in the nature of a bounty for the export of coal and was quite indefensible. Another was an amendment insisting upon the principle of a spread-over of 90 hours per fortnight instead of seven and a half hours per dav. This amendment was, however.' drafted in a new form designed to remove all suspicion that this could be arranged otherwise than by mutual agreement between owners and workers.