In the House of Lords on Tuesday it was annotmeeJ
that the Hours Bill would not be pressed forward as had been arranged. The Lords had already given the whole of Monday's sitting to the second reading and the debate had continued for some hours on Tuesday when Lord Cecil stated that the Government would not after all ask the House to suspend the Standing Orders. The Government, he explained, had learned "with some concern" that " in one part of the country" the owners had put forward proposals which were " profoundly unsatisfactory." It was in order to allow time for clearing up any misunderstanding that the Government no longer contemplated shortening the procedure on the Bill. The Lords were obviously startled by this announcement. Everybody knew that the" part of the '7!ountry " referred to was Yorkshire.
