BRITISH PARLIAMENT
[N '1111.: COMMONS.
'.Australian t’ress Association & Sun.) this day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON. March 23. In the Commons, private members’ dav was devoted to Labourite Green-, all's (on I Mines Bill for the repeal of the Eight Hours’ Act. 1920. He contended Mr Baldwin had reduced the | miners’ standard of living below prewar. yet had not brought the promised prosperity in industry. Mr Lloyd George attacked the Government's handling of the coal stoppage and declared the Eight Hours’ Act was costing ten million yearly in unemployment "pav. as well as ten to twenty million through the reduced price ot coal. . . King, replying, said many of the coal industry’s ills were due to Mr Lloyd George’s methods in giving "•>> t<> the miners in every dispute. The Eie-lit Hours’ Act reduced the cost of production by 2s Cd a ton, and enabled ma,iv mines to keep going which otherwise would have had to close, owing to foreign competition. The Rill was rejected by 154 to I2i.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1928, Page 3
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