SMALL SHOPKEEPERS.
£E6BIAnOH DISCUSSED. ATTITUDE OP LABOUR PARTY. DUNEDIN, Wednesday. A meeting was held this evening to discuss the law affecting small shopkeoners and other small traders. The secretary of the Small Shopkeepers' Association, Mr. G. S. Thomson, said two or three years ago he successfully organised the signing of a petition to Parliament by small shopkeepers throughout the South Island and the Wellington districts, asking that there should be taken from the Arbitration Court and from the secretaries of the Shop Assistants' Unions the power of having a closing hours clause inserted in any new award, which, clause made all those in industry, whether employing labour or not, parties to the award. A petition signed hj ®*® r 2000 persons was presented to Ps™»* ment by the then Minister of W*®' the Hon. G. J. Anderson. .. » Mr. Thomson said hewas wtwtiwo «*h the attitude LTttJ towards Ota yettUem. » principal u|i|iii«A^a
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 235, 4 October 1928, Page 7
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150SMALL SHOPKEEPERS. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 235, 4 October 1928, Page 7
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