BRITISH EMPIRE'S WORK.
EIGHT HOURS A DAY. NOT PRACTICABLE IN WAR TIME. "The Times." LONDON, Aug.. 10. Sir Albert Stanley, chairman of the Board of Trade, informed an engine drivers' and firemen's deputation that tho Government was unable to recognise the eight hours a day principle during the war. The members of the deputation stated that they would convene a general conference of railwaymen to consider the unfavourable reply.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16311, 13 August 1917, Page 9
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69BRITISH EMPIRE'S WORK. Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16311, 13 August 1917, Page 9
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