LABOUR CONFERENCE
LIVELY DEBATE ON SIX-HOURS’ DAY MOTION. (Received February 10, 0.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, February 9. On a motion by Mr Chris. Watson, tho Labour Conference had a lively debate, and by 52 votes to 14 rescinded the six-hours’ day motion. Mr Watson and others argued that the six-hours’ day motion might lose the party seats at the coming elections, alad that the platform advocated all that was necessary in that direction as contained in the section in favour of reducing the hours to forty-four weekly on account of the increased • productivity of labour, with eight hours from bank-to-bank for coal-miners, and six hours for all other underground workers.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8350, 10 February 1913, Page 8
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109LABOUR CONFERENCE New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8350, 10 February 1913, Page 8
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