HOUSE PASSES THE BILL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1400, 28 March 1912, Page 5

HOUSE PASSES THE BILL.

CHILDREN HUNGERING IN THE STREETS. GENERAL STRIKE THREAT. (Received March 28, 1.0 a.m.) London, March 27. The Minimum Wngo Bill has been read a third time by tho House of Commons. The Primo Minister (Mr. Asquith) announced in the Houso of Commons that it was important to pass the Minimum Wage Bill forthwith. Tho Government, he said, would not consent to the insertion of provision for a minimum wage. Mr. Bonar Law, Leader of the Opposition, intimated that the Opposition would not place obstacles in tho way of the passage of the Bill. The Government, he added, had gone to unprecedented lengths to meet the miners. Tho King has cancelled his proposed visit to the Grand National meeting at Liverpool, not desiring to indulge in publio amusement whilo tho country's condition is so serious. Three hundred additional men have resumed work in North Wales, 400 in Warwickshire, and (!00 at Eosehall. One-third of the population of Ilkestone, Derbyshire, is subsisting on charity. Children at Middlesborough lie in bed for lack of clothes. Others are hungering in the streets. The South Wales owners hnvo given ,£3OOO to tho Swansea, Cardiff, and Newport Relief Committees, and the West Yorkshire owners 1000 guineas to the local Relief Committee. Mr. M. Hartshorn, a Glamorgan Labour leader, interviowed, said:—"lf the present situation continues, the men will seriously consider the matter of summoning the transport workers mid other organisations to assist them."