GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 8, 5 October 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph-Proas Association-Copyright Thfl Sydney Plasterers' Union has reiected an offer.by the employers to inweaso their wages to 2s. 6d. nn hotir, with a 48-hours week, including- Saturday. The union has resolved in future to work 44 hours, and no Saturday time. Mr. W. F. Dunn, Minister of Agriculture for New South Wales, has returned to Sydney from Melbourne. Ho says ho has been successful in negotiations to j effect the sale of wheat for local consumption at a price that willl allow bread to bo sold at not more than sevenpence. I Fine weather favoured the annual eight-hour demonstration in. Sydney. The ■unions wore numerically strong,. seventysix participating In the procession, but the d&orative displays were poor. Prominent among the banners were n number advocating «. 44-hour week and the abolition of . night shopping. There were tlio usual big crowds along tne urate and at the sports meoting. According to a London message a statemen!, before the Birthrate Commission by Mis? Norah March, an authority on wcial.questions, that many womjn with private means are prepared to face independent motherhood, conscious of their ability to bring up their children independent of a. man's assistance, has ban' followed by an onslaught of criticisn along orthodox lines. loading womun publicists, notably Lady Asquith i? Askwith) also contribute trenchant articles,. emphasising that a, father is necessary for the happy rearing of children. and that unchastity always brings moral and physical decay, and national ruiii.