Home Politics. EIGHT HOURS BILL CARRIED.
| (I'BB PBRB9 ASSOCIATION). I London. April 25. The mine-owners have sent a protest to the Premier against the Eight Hours Bill on the ground that it will raise prices and prevent England from competing with foreigners. Lord Rosebery dissents from their view, and said that it is impossible for long hour!* of labor to continue in Europe, in view of the extension of the franchise now in progress. The Miners 1 Eight Hours Bill was read a second time by a majority of 87. The Home Secretary declared that a very considerable majority of the Cabinet supported the measure. Mr J. A. Pease, M.P. for Wolverhampton, said if the measure was carried it would be a death blow to English industries. Sir A. Hickman, M.P. for Wolverhampton, declared the adoption of the legal eight hours would vastly increase the cost to coal consumers, Lord Randolph Churchill strongly supported the Bill. April 26. Judge Hughes, in a letter to the Times, cites Sir H. Parke's opposition to the compulsory eight hours for miners. John Morley, Burt, and thirty unofficial members, voted against the Eight Hours Bill.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 299, 27 April 1894, Page 2
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191Home Politics. EIGHT HOURS BILL CARRIED. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 299, 27 April 1894, Page 2
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