EIGHT HOURS A DAY.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 March 1910, Page 3

EIGHT HOURS A DAY.

LIBERAL MINISTER'S VIEW. STRONG SPEECH. [BY BLKCTRIC TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.] [rER PREB9 ABBOCI«WfON.] (Received This Day, B.r>o a.m.) LONDON, March 2a. Sir W. Riineiman, M.P., President of the Bonrd of Education, speaking at South Shields, said tho eight 'hours principle had already dislocated 'trade and rendered thmisnnds of persons idle. Should a great strike occur the suffering would penetrate into hundreds of thousands, of homes. Nobody needed Lord Herbert Gladstone's advice to consumers to bestir themselves to prevent the passage of the Bill. Consumers were chiefly to blame, hut both political parties were culpably responsible for allowing themselves to be bullied and cajoled into adoptiing a sinister policy.