2 AUGUST 1924, Page 3

The other important Government measure, the Agri- cultural Wages. Bill,

has also passed its Third Reading in the }louse of Commons, in this case without a division. The Liberal amendment by which a minimum wage of 80s. a week was to be guaranteed was not called upon by the Speaker. Thus the measure has gone through with the Central Wages Board shorn of its compulsory powers ; but it yet retains, Mr. Noel Buxton considers, sufficient value to be worth preserving.

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