MINERS EIGHT HOURS BILL.
A DEPUTATION TO THE HOME SECRETARY.
LONDON, March 13. The Home Secretary (the Right Hon. H. Gladstone), when receiving a deputation representing the Shipping Federation and railway companies, denied that the Miners' Eight Hours' Bill would cause an increase in the working cost of Is 6d or 2s a ton, but admitted that it would curtail the output. He agreed that the Bill must be amended in some points.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9040, 16 March 1908, Page 5
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73MINERS EIGHT HOURS BILL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9040, 16 March 1908, Page 5
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