srEctAL 70 TUE MN. MORALE
London, Nov. 27.
The second reading of a bill which provides that every employee in the same employment for at Toast twelve months shall be entitled to an annual hhollday of at least eight consecutive days, with full, pay, was passed by the House of Commons to-day with-oura division.
"The measure was introduced by Mr. Guy Kowson, Labour member for the Fernworth division of Lan-easter, who stated that. although about' $,000.000 workers' were at present golfing annual holidays with pay, three-quarters of the workers in Britain did not receive such benefits, The additional cost of Industry. he claimed, would be very small, Many countries, including Soviet Russia, Australia and New Zealand, had. such legislation, "Mr, "Rawson added, All speakers in the House expressed sympathy with the objects of the bill, but some objected to interfer~ fence by the State. and others feared the effect It would have on Britain's export trade, Replying for the Government, LieutCol. Anthony J. Muirhead, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour. confined his eritielsm only to the' suggestion that the legislation might weaken the pprinelple of voluntary collective "The closure was then carried by 4180 votes to $8. amid cheers, and the bill Fead—Reute
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