WORK AND WAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 39, 14 February 1913, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

POLITICAL LABOR! LEAGUE. The following resolutions were carried at a meeting of the -.League in Sydney last*week: — /, That a maximum of eight hours bo a full working day for all railway employees; that a minimum wage of 30s per week be the standard rate of pay for all junior hands engaged in the railway service until attaining the age of 21 years; and that all children attending school be allowed to travel free to and from school, irrespective of distance, both on trams and trains. That the fighting platform be altered so as to provide for the introduction of a bill to legislate for a sixhours’ working day. That a universal eight-hour holiday be supported or moved at conference. That the closing hour of chemists’ shops, pharmacies, and dispensaries bo 6 p.m. on four days per week, 1 p.m. on one day, and 9 p.m. on the late shopping night for the district. (Carried as a plank of the platform.) That the executive closing hours of shops for tobacconists be 6 p.m., and that the Licensing Act be amended, in order to bring hotels into conformitv with the same.