Word: mait
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arthur Ramsay Steel-Mait-land, Minister of Labor: "The reasons why the Government introduces this bill, which is designed to suspend the Seven Hours Act only temporarily, are based upon a plain convincing fact: last year, apart from the Government's Coal Subsidy [TIME, Aug. 10 et seq.], over two-thirds of the great coal exporting firms operated at a loss. . . . The only way of meeting this situation, in the opinion of the Government, is an immediate but not permanent extension in the hours of labor...