HOURS OF WORK

Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1924, Page 3

HOURS OF WORK

“What does itmatter what hours you work? What docs it matter what pay you get? It all turns upon production. In this country you have progressed along the Bolshevik lines, and cannot turn hack. Cannot a man work :fx slow and slower in 48 hours as von can in 44 You have four hours more to do it in.”—lion. W. Kartishaw in the Legislative Council.

COST OF NAVY. Tlie eleven millions of preference from the five dominions to the Mother Country was a mere bagatelle as compared with what Britain spent on tho Navy and the Army, and the protection that they afforded to the whole Empire, declared Sir John Luke. ALP , in the House of Representatives last week. He held that the Dominion preferences to the Old Country should lie increased, not redued. (Applause.) ALLIANCE OF LABOR. ‘There can lie little doubt that the Alliance of Labour is composed of men who live on labour,” said tho Hon. W. Kurtishaw in the Upper House recently. “It has not one. good case to light. But in the question of the II versus 48-hour week they will have a very clear case indeed, and you will he playing into their hands. For, i no matter what Government Ik in power, you will never drive the building trades hack to a 48-hour week.”