EXHIBIT IN AUCKLAND.
Press Association. AUGIvLAN D, ycsterday. An exhibition of English sweated ( industries was opened in the Council Chamber by Mr. F. E. Baiune, M.H.lt., yesterday afternoon. The materials are exhibited under the direction of the Department of Labor. Mr. Ban in e, M.Hi.lt., aiiologised for lie unavoidable absence of the. Mayor ‘ 'Mr. A. Mi. Myers), who was to have ipened the exhibit. He said that if anything could bring forcibly home to the people of this colony the benetits of living in a country having • ivise legislation regarding labor, it was such a display as this. Snell a state of affairs was practically impossible in this colony. The so-called ( Freedom of contract between employar and employe had resulted in that shameful state of things. So long . as human life was considered of . value, so long as humanity was to | be a factor in the relations of cmployer and employe, so long must . they bless the labor laws that made such a state of things as “sweated j industries” impossible in this country, j
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2100, 7 June 1907, Page 1
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175EXHIBIT IN AUCKLAND. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2100, 7 June 1907, Page 1
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