SHOP ASSISTANTS.
PLEA FOR SHORTER HOURS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, October 23. Representatives of the shop assistants of the Dominion interviewed tlio Prime Minister to-day and asked amendments to the fthops and Office.. Act. T.he deputation urged that a Bin be introduced to provide for a 44-hour week and for the shops to close at o.lifj p.m. on five days of the week, and at noon on the sixth day. Also that Easter Saturday be declared a statutory half-holirfac, and Saturday a universal J»lMiol;day. Phe .speaker!! levelled slrwvr tr.iVv'.cism at tba administration ai (.easting and heating regulations, oao ?ne~.&cr of the deputation complaining Crtat the Labor pjpariniant had failed r-bioiutely to enforce them. Mr. Massey, reply®,?, said that it would not he possibls to make the amendments asked for thii session, as all concerned could act te> beard in the time before the labor Bills Committee, but ha would try this session to have passed an Assesdmcnt Act to give
.power to the Arbitration Court not only to fix the hour? but also the closing hours of shops. Parliament must meet early next year and then the whole Act could be gone into.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 October 1919, Page 7
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193SHOP ASSISTANTS. Taranaki Daily News, 24 October 1919, Page 7
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