SIX O'CLOCK CLOSING.
THE SYDNEY REFERENDUM. ;' By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, May 31. The secretary of the Federated Liquor Trades Union- claims that six' o'clock cloeing would mean throwing out of employment three to five thousand men and women.
The New South Wales Alliance replies that there will be an improvement in other avenues of work' from the carrying of six o'clock closing, which will absorb any thrown out of work. The Alliance asks: "Would the Political Labor League Conference have carried a resolution in favor of six o'clock closing if the cause of the workers would suffer thereby?" The Herald, in a leader, accepts the referendum as a war precautionary measure, and advocates six o'clock straightout. It says it' has been proved to demonstration that the 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 being waged in Europe we can afford to run no unavoidable risks (
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1916, Page 2
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183SIX O'CLOCK CLOSING. Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1916, Page 2
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