MINERS' HOURS OF WORK.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20108, 11 December 1930, Page 11

MINERS' HOURS OF WORK.

INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION SOUGHT. POSITION ON BRITISH COALFIELDS. (BBITISH OmciAL WIBEL® 3B -) (Received December 10th, 5.5 p.m.) lIUGBY, December 9. Mr E. Shinwell, Minister for Mines, is continuing his efforts to ensure that the next miners' international conference to bo held in June shall put through a convention to regulate miners' hours. The three countries most concerned are Great Britain, Germany, nnd Poland, and as the 'Manohoster Guardian" points out, a prior agreement between them would practically ensure the conclusion of an effective convention. Mr Shinwell has already seen the German Minister for Labour, and was .yesterday and to-day meeting representatives of the Polish Government, riis discussions with them also extended to, the possibilities for an international agreement on production. Meanwhile, particular attention, it is stated, is being directed to the question of hours on the British coalfields, and Air Shinwell is reported to be considering the advisability of a joint discussion between the owners and the miners to reach a compromise to become effective, when, in July, the Miners' Eight Hours Act lapses. It is that the reduction of "hours might be to a seven and three-quarter or a seven and a half hour day, instead of to the seven-hour day which otherwise would be restored when the present Act lapses.