EIGHT HOURS ACT
LABO UR'S DISAPPROVAL. ADDRESS-IN-REPLY AMENDMENT. .(Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, February 9. Mr Arthur Henderson, in the House of Commons, moved the Labour amendment to the Address-in-Reply. He declared that 250,000 miners would never again bo required on the coalfields. The position in South Wales was unprecedentedly bad. The eight Hours Act was the direct means of adding 200,000 to the unemployed. Without its repeal there would never be good relations between miners and owners. Personally, ho believed that the nation as a whole was in a worse position than in 1914.—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 10 February 1928, Page 5
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