EIGHT HOURS FOR MINERS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 302, 17 December 1908, Page 2

EIGHT HOURS FOR MINERS

!♦ THE BIUXISH BILL. SECOND KKADINU CAKRIED BY I'HK LORDS. Received 1(1, 8.25 p.m. London, December 10. The House of Lords rejected Lord Newton'* luiiemlm.-nts for the rejection ol Hi., Miners' Eight Hours' Bill by 121 to 44. The Bill was read ft second tune. Lord Lansdownc expressed misgivings in regard t 0 the principle, especially iii the interest of consumers, Even ft temporary embarrassment of the country's industries would, lie said, be serious when numbers of unemployed were walking tiie streets, CAPITALISTS' OPPOSITION. TALES OE WOE. fc Received 10, 8.25 p.m. J' London, December 18. Meetings of London merchants and 0 also Chambers of Commerce urged the i House of Lords to amend the Government's socialistic Miners' Eight Hours' 0 Bill on tlie ground that it was flagrant >■ class legislation interfering with the per>l sonal liberty of miners and carried at >• the instance of the Labor Party without ■' consulting the workers. Several railway. e directors protested at the prospect of '■ increased prices leading to economies in- '" volving the discharge of inaay servants.