INDUSTRIAL PHASES.

Northern Advocate, 3 May 1919, Page 3

INDUSTRIAL PHASES.

LIMITATION OF HOURS

BRITISH LEAD EXPECTED

LONDON, May 1

Sir Robrt Home, presiding over the committee of the National Industrial Conference at Whitehall, read a letter from Mr Lloyd George stating that foreign countries were looking to Britain to give a lead in founding a better industrial order. H e approved the bill providing for a 48-hour week- and a minimum wage fixed by commission. Elasticity was required by particular industries such as agriculture, in which seasonal and other conditions necessitated special consideration, and such as seamen and domestic servants, in which a 48-hour week was impossible.

Mr Lloyd George said that the Act should otherwise apply to all industries in which legal limitation of hours was practicable. He hoped the solution of the urgent problem of the unemployed would b e first question claiming the projected National industrial Council's attention. He hoped that the council would be established as quickly as possible. He was sure that it would be of great value in assisting the Government to improve industrial conditions. —A. and N.Z.