MINERS' EIGHT HOURS BILL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13662, 28 March 1908, Page 5

MINERS' EIGHT HOURS BILL.

MR GLADSTONE'S STATEMENT.

• • (Received March 2&, 8 a,m.) LONDON, March- 28. Tho Home Secretary, Mr Herbert Gladstone, in replying to a. deputation of business men engaged in iron, steel, shipping, a.nd cotton trades, and other users of coal, declared that the Miners Eight Hours Bill provided an additional half an hour's wofkr above what would be allowed by a rigid bank-to-bank eight hours bill. The best fx- 1 perts would examine the economic side with a view to reaching a reasonable basis. The Bill was open to amendment. The Government would pass, no measure which in their honest judgment Ministers thought woxild do harm, fiermanent or otherwise, to the indusries of the country. , , , . „ , Sir Hugh Bell, while thanking Mr Gladstone, declared that the speech did not allay their anxiety. ,