INDUSTRIAL QUESTIONS
Evory Sunday night after church service a men's meeting is held, in fat. Peter's Schoolroom, -Ghuznee Street, and for the past 6ix months industrial questions have been, debated. It is felt that certain economic reforms are a bedrock necessity for true advance and progress. Last Sunday night the question of the shortening of- hours of labour was debated and resulted in the passing of the following resolution: "Thai; this meeting of men eees the desirability of promoting such legislation• at the earliest moment wilh the object of shortening at once the hours of labour in dangerous and noxious occupations, am! (he setting up of committees of scientific and buei-. ness men who will make it their study to bring about the same conditions when pesJiblu for the general rim of-working men and women."
German and Turkish statistics are stated by the Armenian patriot Khaa Zadian to show that in 1916 the number of Armenians who bad been deported amounted to 1,396,350, of whom 1,056,550 were massacred.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 131, 27 February 1919, Page 5
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168INDUSTRIAL QUESTIONS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 131, 27 February 1919, Page 5
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