EIGHT HOUR DAY
OPPOSITION MOVEMENT IN BRITAIN. (Rec. 5.5 pjn.) London, August 13. Mr Cook, the miners’ secretary, in a rallying spceeh in Durham, appealed to the miners to co-operate in a movement to smash the Eight-Hour Day Act. He declared that human endurance had reached its limit, and this was an occasion, not for patience, but for action. It was a choice between starvation wages or closing the pits, compelling the nation to pay the miners a living wage. He was not willing to await the advent of a Labour Government. They might starve before that happened. He was organising a revolt from Lands’ End to John o’ Groats in order to rouse the workers to united action.—A. and N.Z. and Sun.
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Southland Times, Issue 20256, 15 August 1927, Page 7
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123EIGHT HOUR DAY Southland Times, Issue 20256, 15 August 1927, Page 7
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