BRITISH GOVERNMENT DEFENDED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 15 February 1919, Page 7

BRITISH GOVERNMENT DEFENDED.

TENDERNESS FOR PROFITEERS

DENIED

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(Received Feb. 15, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON. Feb.si3

In the House of Commons, Mr Bonar Law said that never in history were employers more ready to' agree' that workers should have a larger share in profits. An eight-hour day for railwaymen was a Dig step forward, and the .Government was endeavoring to extend better conditions. The Government had not shown tenderness for profiteers. The Government was prepared to enquire into the question of nationalisation of coalmines. Amelioration' of conditions would be retrospective.

Undoubtedly, continued Mr Bonar Law, we were passing through anxious times, and the next few months would be critical, but ; he believed we should Be able to pull through. ; He urged employers to take their courage in their hands and not hesitate in launching" new enterprises. ' j The Labor amendment to the Ad-i dress-in-Reply was negatived by 311 | votes to 59.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. j