Word: seven-hour
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...Traitor! What about the eight hours law?" cried a burly miner. All knew that Premier Baldwin had sponsored and seen through the Commons a bill extending the one-time seven-hour miners' day to eight hours (TIME, July...
...Extending the hours of labor made it possible for the coal owners to offer higher wages and thus tempt the miners back to work through the "door" of regional agreements which they would not have contracted at the seven-hour wage...
...Mine Owners' Association conferred directly for the first time since June with President Herbert Smith of the Miners' Federation, at London. Mr. Smith had just received a mandate- from the striking miners to negotiate. He announced himself willing to compromise on every point but one-the present seven-hour miners' day must not be lengthened by a moment. Suave, but inflexible, Mr. Williams replied that the owners demand "revision" (lengthening) of the miners' working day as a preliminary to any compromise whatsoever. . . . Ensued complete deadlock before the peace negotiations had even begun. The negotiants bowed formally...
...Federation delegates in London at which A. J. ("Emperor") Cook, bitter-ender Communist secretary of the Miners' Federation, reputedly admitted that the miners may have to accept a lower wage than that for which they are fighting but enjoined them to a last ditch fight to retain the seven-hour day. The Seven Hours Act was temporarily abrogated by the Eight Hours Act (TIME, July 12 et seq.) which is the keystone of Premier Baldwin's anti-strike program. ¶ Learned that ten Church of England Bishops and twelve Nonconformist dignitaries had drawn up a proposal (seconded...
...Lockout-Strike." The long standing causa belli was, of course, the long standing demand of the British Coal Miners' Federation for continuance of the seven-hour day and a national minimum wage scale 33 1/3% above the pre-War wage...