MINERS EIGHT HOURS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8880, 3 August 1907, Page 2

MINERS EIGHT HOURS.

Press Association.—Copyright, London, August 3,

In the Commons tho Minors’ Eight Hours Bill, introduced by Mr Gladstone, was read a first time. Representatives of the Coal Owners’ Association and the Miners’ Federation are conferring in the hope of rendering such a measure, if passed in 1908, workable and acceptable to both parties. Mr Gladstone’s Bill exempts officials, supervisors and employees in A position of authority and provides moans of suspending the measure in the case of a national emergency or industrial crisis leading to a dearth of coal.