COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 48, 31 May 1916, Page 5

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

LIQUOR REFERENDUM. PROS AND CONS OF SIX O’CLOCK CLOSING. fUNiTWJ Pbm« Amooi avion.] (Received 9.25 aim'.) Sydney, May 31. The secretary of the Federated Liquor Trades Unions claim that six o’clock closing will mean the throw* ing out of employment of from three to iive thousand men and women in Xew South Wales. The Alliance replies that there will be an improvement in other avenues of work from the carrying of six o’clock, which will absorb any thrown out of work. The Alliance asks, Would the Political Labour League Conference carry a resolution in favor of six o’clock if fho cause of the workers was to suffer thereby? 'The Herald, in a leader,,accepts the referendum as a war precautionary measure, and advocates six o’clock straightout. The paper says; ‘Tt has been proved to the point of demonstration that tne free use of liquor saps discipline, weakens resolution, and undermines the constitution of

those going to the front. A sharp distinction must be drawn between what is fair and proper in times of peace and times of war. While so serious a struggle is now waging in Europe, we can afford to run no unavoidable risks.”