PLEADS REPEAL OF 8-HOURS ACT.
HENDERSON DECLARES 250,000 MINERS WILL NOT GET WORK AGAIN.
By Telegrapli.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Xus.', arid N-.Z. Cable Association. (Received February 10, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, February 9. In the House of : Commons, Mr Arthur Henderson moved a Labour amendment to the Address-in-Reply. declared- that a quarter of a million miners would never again be required in the coal’fields. The position in South Wales was unprecedentedly bald. -
The Eight Hours Act was the direct means of adding 100,000 to the unemployed list, 'l Without its repeal *here would never be good relations between the miners and the owners. Personally, he believed that the nation as a whole was in a worse position than in 1914.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18385, 10 February 1928, Page 1
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