DRAPERS' HOURS.
SHOP ASSISTANTS PROTEST. AGAINST WORKING LATE. (By Telegraph.—Tress Assouiatkm.),WELLINGTON 1 , this day. Tire following letter has been sent by the secretary of the Wellington Retail Pcffc Goods Employees' U>2Jon to. .the Mindster for Labour and Secretary for Labour on behalf of the members of the union:—"l desire respectfully to inform you that, whereas any action by shopkeepers to employ assistants this evening till 11 o'clock is a distinct breach of \ the Shop and Offices Act, we will, in ! event of such action taking place, call upon, y-our Department to prosecute all ' those who are guilty of a breach of .the ( law. We cannot recognrae that any conference, department or individual 'has power to override the statutory require- | merits of the Act, and will object even : to the Prime Minister, exercising such arbitrary powers." ' A, telegram previously received; reporting a deputation io the Prime Minister on this subject, is publishc j 6u another i ' page. J {
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 305, 21 December 1912, Page 9
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