EIGHT HOURS' DEMON STRATION.
SPEECHES BY AUSTRALIAN - LABOUR LEADERS. United Presa Assoc:a f ion—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, April 28. The Eight Hours Demonstration was partly spoiled by the showery weather The speakers referred to tho railway disaster, and condemned the long hours worked by the eniynemen. -vlr Fisher, louder of tho Federal labour party, declared thai t'l;<o party was too modest. Tho Unions throughout the Oommouwoalth nnist ask themsalvee nest oloction whether tho Federal Parliament should receive increased power to pass industrial legislation. tSlv Prendergast, leader of tibe Sta-bo Party, declared -thait on aU questions affecting the workers tho States had given up their powers to tho Commonwealth.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13102, 29 April 1908, Page 7
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