UTOPIAN RESOLUTIONS.
(Received 10.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, Thursday. The Labour Conference has resolved : that there should be a general reduc- , tion of hours of labour to 44 a week on account of the increase in the productibility of labour. The Council also resolved on the abolition of overtime | for those who have- worked eight hours, and six hours a day for underground workers, the .minimum living wage to be not less' than 8s a day. It JfasJalsoV resolved "that the employmerit of children Sunder -16 years of age be ' prohibited in any . industrial occupation; no- person under 18 years of age to-work overtime . The Conference was instructed that i. 1 communication ' . tronld.be opened up with leading industrial centres- in Europe and America to bringt- about co-operative action to prevent : labour-saving .patents becoming the , monopoly "of capitalists. (
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 28 January 1909, Page 3
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