LABOUR CONFERENCE
AND A SIX HOURS' DAY. (Received this Morning 12.30 o'clock.) SYDNEY, February 8. On the motion of Mr Watson, the Labour Conference, after a lively debate, rescinded the six hour .lay motion, the voting being 52 to 14. Mr Watson and others argued that a-«ix hour day might lose the pavty seats at the coming elections. The platform advocated all that was necessary in that direction, as it contained a section" favouring a reduction of hours to. -I! pe'r week, on account of the increased productivity of labour, with eight hours from bank to bank for coal miners, and six hours for all other underground workers.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 February 1913, Page 5
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108LABOUR CONFERENCE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 February 1913, Page 5
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