HOUES OF WORK
ARBITRATION COURT'S POWERS
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to "The Evening Post.")
DUNEDIN, This Day. "The position is that, if the Arbitration Court has the power to make the brickworkers work twelve hours per day, the Court has the power to make every factory employee work any number of hours and thus nullify the wise limitations set by the Factories Act," stated Mr. J. Robinson, of the Trades Hall, when discussing a case to bo cited by the Arbitration Court for the Court of Appeal. The Court held that it had the right to fix tho hours of work at more than eight and threequarters a day or a forty-eight hour week.
Mr. Kobinson said that tho case was of vital concern to every factory worker in New Zealand, and at its meeting next month the Alliance of Labour would consider its action. -The case would probably be a costly one. and the method of raising a fightinc fund would be considered. It would bo -i very serious thing, ho said, if the Court had the power to set aside statutes at will.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 128, 26 November 1929, Page 6
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184HOUES OF WORK Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 128, 26 November 1929, Page 6
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