BRITISH MINE INDUSTRY
WORKING-DAY REDUCTION DELAYED RE-ESTABLISHMENT FIRST (United Service) LONDON, Thursday. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Philip Snowden, in the course of a speech at Leicester, said the Government’s pledge to restore to the miners a seven-hour working day would be redeemed, but the facts must be faced. An immediate restoration of tbe sevenhour day would inflict grievous disaster on the industry. Therefore, as a preliminary to a reduction of the hours, the Government was helping the industry to re-estab-lish itself.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 803, 25 October 1929, Page 11
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