THE EIGHT HOURS DAY.
FOREIGN COMPETITION. s LORD ROSEBERY'S VIEWS. ! Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.— Copyright London, April 25. Mine owners have sent a protest to the Premier against the Eight Hours Bill, • on the ground that it will raise prices and prevent England competing with foreigners. .-'.,.','., Lord Rosebery dissents from their view, and has replied that it is impossible for long hours of labour to continue in Europe in view of the extension of the franchise now in progress. Th.e Miners' Eight Hours' Bill was read a second time by a majority of 87. The Home Secretary declared that a very considerable majority of the Cabinet approved of the measure. Mr. J. A. Pease, M.P. for Northumberland, said if the measure was carried it would be a death blow to English industries. Sir A. Hickman, M.P. for Wolverhampton, declared the adoption of a legal eight hours would vastly increase the cost to coal consumers. -i Lord Randolph Churchill strongly supported the Bill.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9496, 27 April 1894, Page 5
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