CLOSING HOURS CLAUSE
SHOPKEEPERS’ PETITION Press Association DUNEDIN, Wednesday. A meeting was held this evening to discus the law affecting small shopkeepers and other small traders. The secretary of the Small Shopkeepers’ Association, Mr. G. S. Thomson, said two or three years ago he sucessfully organised the signing of a petition to Parliament by small shopkeepers throughout the South Island and the Wellington districts, asking that there should be taken from the Arbitration Court and from the secretaries of the Shop Assistants’ Unions the power of having a closing hours clause inserted in any new award, which clause made all those in industry, whether employing labour or not. parties to the award. A petition signed by over 2,000 persons was presented to Parliament by the then Minister of Labour, the Hon. G. J. Anderson. Mr. Thomson is not satisfied with the attitude of the Labour Party toward tlie petition. They were its principal opponents in the House.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 476, 4 October 1928, Page 11
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157CLOSING HOURS CLAUSE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 476, 4 October 1928, Page 11
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