EIGHT-HOUR DAY
LONDON. March 25
Sir W. Runciman, President of the Board of Education, sneaking at South Shields,, said the eieht-hours' principle had already disorganised trade and rendered thousands idle. Should a great jstriko occur. the suffering resulting would I penetrate hundreds of thousands of homes. Nobody heeded Lord Herbert Gladstone's advice to consumers to bestir themselves to prevent the passage of the bill. The consumers were chiefly to blame, but both, political parties were culpably responsible for allowing themselves" to be bullied and cajoled into adopting a sinister policy.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2924, 30 March 1910, Page 25
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90EIGHT-HOUR DAY Otago Witness, Issue 2924, 30 March 1910, Page 25
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