CAMPAIGNING FOR SATURDAY CLOSING
Received Thursday, 7 p.m. SYDNEY, July 24. Shop assistants are still vigorously campaiginng for the elosing on Saturday of retail stores. A niass meeting oi 50U niembers of the Shop Assistants' Union has decided to ask the Industrial Uommission for the immediate liearing of the union claim for the abolition of Saturdav work. The union will ask the commission to take evidence in Hobart where the iive dav 40-hour week is in force. Shop keepers who fixed th-e wbek-day hours so that people were denied an opportun ity for mid-vveek shopping were con demned at the meetiiig which recommended that the State Counc-il of the Union sliould convene a meeting withitl a month to rOvievv the position and de termine further action».- . a. A niotion that combined representa tion of the unions in the retail trade sliould be aslved to hold" a stop-work meeting oue Saturday morning was, liowever, defeated. Tlie assistant-organiser (Mr. A. (freenup) said that 40,000 shop assistants in X' ew South Wales believed that Saturday work was not essential. If there were difficulties which could not be surniounled, wliy was the s-heme working satisfact.oiiiy.in Xew Zealand and llobart?
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Chronicle (Levin), 25 July 1947, Page 5
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