MINERS' HOURS.
DISPUTE OVER TEE BRITISH ACT, CONTRACTS TO BE ENDED. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright. London, January 1 2. Tho South Wales'miners, with a view to negotiating for a settlement,. have given notice of termination of their contracts in March. [According to a cablegram published yesterday, the .termination .of the contracts in March involves 150,000 miners. The miners recently threatened to take this stop unless the mine-owners forego their claim for .£960,000 damages, due by tho men for not working an extra hour a day-on sixty days in the year. Hie High Court has just decided that under the Eight Hours in Mines Act the miners are liable to work this extra hour,'hence the trouble.]
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 706, 4 January 1910, Page 5
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114MINERS' HOURS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 706, 4 January 1910, Page 5
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