COAL MINERS’ PLIGHT
EIGHT HOURS ACT CRITICISED 100,000 ADDED TO WORKLESS LIST Presi Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, February 9. (Received February 10, at 11 a.m.)
51 r Henderson moved a Labor amendment to the address-in-roply, and declared that a quarter of a million miners would never again be required in tho coalfields. The position in South Wales was unprecedentedly bad. The Eight Hours Act was the direct means of adding one bundled thousand to the unemployed, and without its , repeal there would never be good relations between the minors and owners. Personally, he believed that the nation, as a whole, was in a worse position than it was in 191-1.
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Evening Star, Issue 19787, 10 February 1928, Page 4
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109COAL MINERS’ PLIGHT Evening Star, Issue 19787, 10 February 1928, Page 4
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