GENERAL CABLES.
LONDON, July 17,
The Master of the Rolls (Sir H. H. Cozens Hardy) upheld the Great Western Railway signalmen's claim to submit to a Conciliation Board items of the national programme prepared at the Birmingham Conference; hence the various boards must meet to discos the signalmen's demand for an eight-hours' day, single booking for day work, time and a quarter for overtime on week-days, time and a half for Sundays, and an increase in ihe wages of chose not receiving eight hours' pay, and also in the case of London workers.
Mr H. J. Tennant, M.P. for Berwickshire, speaking at the Liberal Colonial Club, hoped that under the wise guidance of the Earl of Crewe (Secretary of State for the Colonies) and Colonel Seely (Under-Secretary, the Colonial Office would do something to give reality and permanency to the plan for a secretariat, suggested by the Imperial Conference. He added that the club's object was to foster and stimulate a sympathetic, intelligent attitude on colonial questions.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9143, 20 July 1908, Page 5
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167GENERAL CABLES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9143, 20 July 1908, Page 5
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