TRADES AND LABOUR COUNCIL.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 63, 12 September 1908, Page 8

TRADES AND LABOUR COUNCIL.

.■ ■ ♦ DEPUTATION TO THE PREMIER, WELLINGTON, to-day. Delegates from the recent conference of the Trades Council waited on the Prime Minister, and Minister of Labor, and submitted the resoiutibns passed then. .The Premier said the representations would be considered by the Government. It was impossible, however, to give effect to all the resolutions. One of the chief desires of tho conference was a. 44 hours' week for all workers — oight hours on five days, and four on the day of the weekly half holiday. The Government believed in one day's rest a week, but it would create great trouble if that was embodied in law and made to apply generally, without considerI ing local -conditions.