ANTI-SWEATING
GOVERNMENT URGED TO INTRODUCE LEGISLATION. WAGES BOARD FAVORED. Received 15, !),50 p.m. Loudon, December 15. The Archbishop of Canterbury introduced to Mr. Asquith an inlluenthl deputation representing the National Anti-Sweating League, which urged legislation against sweated labor.
Sir Charles Dilke and Mr.G. X. Da rues, J M.t'. (on behalf of the Labor Tarty), Karl Dunravcn, and Mr. Sydney Webb supported the League and e.xprosse i their entire sympathy with the object. They .personally favored proceeding by way of a wages board, and hoped the Government would be able to devise machinery of « kind that would lie properly cii'.iip.pi'd, prompt, and effective. They must proceed cautiously, recognising the delicacy of the problem. .Mr. Ernest Aves's report on industrial legislation, published in a White Book, uiid which recognised that regulative Acts are desirable and advantageous lo the community, created the impression that tile homework problem Iu Australia was much less serious than here.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 301, 16 December 1908, Page 2
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152ANTI-SWEATING Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 301, 16 December 1908, Page 2
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