Eight Hours Day.
WAGES' OF MHNIBRS. ' REOUCTIOIN! TO BE EEFUSEiD. (Per United Press Association.) -/- ■> < ■■•; 'LO'NDeWj --Miay: If. -; Gonsequtent on the doming into ■ To^erajtion. ofthla Bight. iHtours in Mines 'Blill, the question of wagea is now ibeinig disculssed by various conferences of minla owners and em.ployees. Tlhe Sfoottiah - Miner's' Federation ha® refused to accept the proposed reduction of 12£ per" cent. The coaljnasters'• and men's delegiates afterwards disctussed the matter, but failed to agree, andi adjourned the conference till the 22ndl Eight thousand men are atflfected'. The Souitih Wales 1 doalm asters propose a reduction of 1\ per cent. The •men. have declined to accept this, and the matter 'has theetn referred to the chairman of the Conciliation Btaiard (Viaoount St. Aldwym). j (London; m«, n. •A) joinlt conference of; the employees and employees in the Siteel trade, at .Swansea!," decided upon a general eight hours a day in the trade.
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Thames Star, Volume XLV, Issue 10420, 13 May 1909, Page 4
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150Eight Hours Day. Thames Star, Volume XLV, Issue 10420, 13 May 1909, Page 4
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