SATURDAY OR WEDNESDAY?

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1049, 11 February 1911, Page 6

SATURDAY OR WEDNESDAY?

. * . THE WEEK-END MOVEMENT. About fifty ' persons, including someladies, attended at the Trades Hall at the invitation of tho 'Wellington Trades and Labour Council to discuss proposals for a campaign in furtherance of tho morement for. tho institution of a universal Saturday half-holiday. .Mr. E. J. Carcv (president of tho council) was in tho chair, and with Messrs. M. J. Reardon and P. Muir, also membors of the council, outlined tho nature of tho movement. It was pointed out that tho movement was in no sense a' political one. . Trades councils throughout the Dominion , lad long advocated this reform, and, : said i the speakers, it- was duo to tho ■ work of tho unions that tho Act had j been amended to make of a 10 per cent, requisition sufficient to cause a poll to ', be taken, and this 10 per cent, thoso present were now asked to assist to procure. Mr. Evans,-on, behalf of tho shop- ' keepers and shop assistants,' thanked , tho council for its past efforts and present activity in this matter. Tho petition now in circulation already contained more names of shopkeepers than wero .on tho membership of the Shopkeepers' Association. ; . In reply to a question, tho chairman pointed out that in Australia the Satur- : day closing was compulsory in Sj'dney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. Local option decided tho matter in tho provincial centres. After further discussion, thoso present resolved to act as organising committees in specified areas. Another meeting is to bo held in about a fortnight's time.