HC Deb 07 May 1925 vol 183 cc1166-7W
Captain LODER

asked the Minister of Labour whether he will enter into negotiations with the leading industrial countries at the earliest possible moment in order to secure agreement on the conditions under which the International Convention for the Regulation of Hours of Industrial Employment can be simultaneously ratified?

Captain MACMILLAN

asked the Minister of Labour what steps, if any, he proposes to take to induce the leading industrial Powers to agree to implement the provisions of the Washington Convention by simultaneous legislative regulation of the hours of industrial employment?

Mr. BETTERTON

I can only refer my hon. Friends to the reply given yesterday by my right hon. Friend to a similar question put by the hon. and gallant Member for Leith (Captain W. Benn).