NO SATURDAY WORK.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3578, 14 September 1920, Page 5

NO SATURDAY WORK.

N.S.W. SITUATION STILL

UNCERTAIN

EXTEEAIISTS TALKING WILDLY.

URGING ADOPTION OF ITALIAN METHODS. SYDNEY, Sept 12. The position for a forty-four hour week and no Saturday work is still uncertain. In some sections of the Trade many men worked yoLcrday, while in other sections the bnlk of >

the employees absented themselves, resisting the demands, and declare .rsisting the demands, and declare their intention of closing down if the demands are persisted in. At a mass meeting of "the trades involved, speeches were made advocating following the example of Italian workers in taking over and running the shops. One speaker said: “If we are locked out we will work the shops and pay the bosses.” More ■moderate speakers disclaimed extreme action and foreign methods. The meeting was adjourned till next Saturday as it is impossible fo declare a policy straight out until negotiations with the Government over the question of shorter hours reach finality.