HOUSE OF COMMONS
LABOUR AMENDMENT REJECTED.
CHANGES IN PRICES AND WAGES
RAILWAYS AND MINES,
(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) LONDON, March 14. In the House of Commons to-day the amendment moved by the leader of the Labour party to the Address-in-Reply, expressing regret that provision was not being made to secure a national minimum wage or to nationalise railways and mines, was rejected by 19!) votes to 41. The debate elicited a statement that since 1900 wages had risen 1 per cent., while retail prices had risen 15 per cent. Mr. Buxton (President of the Board of Trade) said he doubted whether the nationalisation of railways was a good economic proposition. He regarded the nationalisation of mines as a speculative business, and doubted whether the State was the right body to undertake such work. The Government would consider any effective proposal to secure a minimum wage. He proposed to extend the Trade Boards Act to a number of additional industries.
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Northern Advocate, 15 March 1913, Page 5
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