CITY BREAD CARTERS
LONG HOURS COAIPLAINED OF. ' A meeting' of the Wellington Alaster Bakers' Association is to be called shortly to go into allegations to the effect that many of the bread carters of the city are at present obliged to work unreasonably long hours without the payment'of overtime. It is stated that considerable dissatisfaction exists among the bread-carters of the City at the present owing to the conditions binder -which they are obliged to work. They state that while working undor the Wellington Drivers' Award (excepting so far as hours are concerned)' the provisions of the': Shops and Offices Act (prescribing 52 hours per week, with one hour additional for horse attendonce) are enforced, and they receive none of the privileges , prescribed under the Act.- The secretary of the Wellington Drivers' Union (Air. A. Parlane) states that the union wants the Labour Department to see that tlio provisions of the Act are strictly enforced,- and it considers that the hours fixed under it are sufficiently long enough for . any man to. work considering that thcro is another hour a, day for horsfl attendance, ...
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2208, 22 July 1914, Page 9
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184CITY BREAD CARTERS Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2208, 22 July 1914, Page 9
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