EIGHT HOURS DAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 62, 4 June 1927, Page 17

EIGHT HOURS DAY

WASHINGTON CONVENTION ratification question DISCUSSED IN COMMONS S ' J Cable -—Press Association. Copyright LONDON, Thursday. baf ir .Carles Wilson initiated a deth e ln House of Commons on tnn “ on J ratifi eation of the Washing- ?. Eight Hours Convention, pm-fi that other countries were ini!.*- to ask tile reason of our inertia. la T he Right Hon - Neville Chamber- .. re Phed that if they went ahead : . y as asked they might hamper while a different interpre , abroad would bring no corresponding troubles. R was necessary that all the i„ We r s should ratify the same thing, wing fully what that thing was * * j Chamberlain said the Minisoolined to be stampeded. * >• "phn Marriott again raised the p ~T ab '*ity of discussing Imperial Rrit i Fence decisions, and asked if „ au J had abandoned her claim to trol or superior authority. rhiii 6 Rig ht Hon. Winston Chur--1 answered that one reason why „ waa no discussion was that the on fh ren T e - was in general agreement if th “ ec * s i°ns, but he agreed that th.„ 6y were taken ‘‘sub silentio” staL Woul<i he liable to misunderanding m other parts of the Em- ,' Personally, he welcomed the ,i,„ . Whip's offer to co-operate tn Th aU v S a day for ‘he debate, ine House adjourned till June 13. A- and N.Z.-Suu.