11 JANUARY 1930, Page 2

Mr. A. J. Cook made the point that, for the

first time 'in history, Government, owners, and workers in Great Britain had agreed that hours of work in the industry were an international question. He added that the first step towards securing uniformity or equivalence of conditions should be to determine the length of the working-day measured from bank to bank. The fact that the Economic Committee of the League had diag- nosed the industry's malady as one of excessive capacity of production was a sure indieation -that the question of hours and wages must be tackled internationally. We are hopeful that sonie agreement on hours will be hammered out at the present Conference in readiness for a draft convention at the General Conference of the International Labour Office in June.