BREAKERS AHEAD
COAL MINEES' DEMANDS
CLAIM ON GOVERNMENT
'Australian',Press- Association—United-. Service.
(Received 12th June, noon.)
LONDON, 11th June.
With the expiry of the district coalfields agreements at the end of the year the Miners' Federation is expected to demand a national agreement with a national minimum wage, creating an awkward situation for the Mac Donald Government. Mr: A*. J. Cook,inan article in the ''Weekly Miner," states that the miners voted solidly for the repeal of the Eight Hours Act;; new Compensa-; tion and Minimum Wage Acts and; the nationalisation of the mines. "I feol sure," he says, "that ' the Labour Government will not betray their trust, but the Government must have a chance seeing that they \ have not got a clear majority.. The Labour Party is pledged to move at the first session for the repeal of the Eight Hours Act." '
Mr. Cook has joined the Independent Labour Party.: ' // .
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19290612.2.53.2
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 135, 12 June 1929, Page 9
Word Count
149BREAKERS AHEAD Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 135, 12 June 1929, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in