Paid Holidays In Britain
i Received 3.30 a.mb RUGBY. July 14. The Minister of Labour. Mr Ernest Brow n in the House of Commons today. said (he committee for the fixation of paid holidays,, under the chairmanship of Lord Amulrce. which had Live: ligated the question, estimated that, to the end of 1936 holidays with pay wore assured to about £7.750,000 work, people—a proportion of 40 per cent of Britain's 18,500.000 work people. He had already set up a departmental committee to co-ordinate industrial, educational, transport and lodgings, and other holiday arrangements. and considerable progress had been made. The education authorities were endeavouring to arrange the holidays for both elementary and secondary schools, so as to fit in with the industrial holidays. In the main, this would be a local problem. The Board of Education had also been in consultation with the universities authorities and examining boards, and the board had been impressed with the of all concerned to help in dealing with the problem.
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Northern Advocate, 16 July 1938, Page 4
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