MR BALDWIN AND THE COAL CRISIS. “We intend to leave the Seven Hours Act on the Statute Book/but to introduce legislation to enable an extra hour to he worked during a period of j time. This does not prescribe longer hours of work, but it does permit serious negotiations to lx? entered into ou a basis upon which It i.s obvious that a far better scale of wages can be paid than upon the existing basis. I Live received positive assurances from the owners that on the basis of an eighthours day there, are certain districts producing approximately half the output. of the country in which the men will bo offered a continuance of their existing wages for July, August and September, and over moro thin half the rest of the country the reduction asked, if one is asked at all, will be something materially less than the 10 per cent, drop that is in the offer already made.”—Mr Baldwin.
Child grinding teeth? Give Wade’s Warm Figs. Pleasant to take. Immediately effective.—Advt.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1926, Page 4
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