44-HOUR WEEK.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18591, 16 January 1926, Page 10

44-HOUR WEEK.

N.S.W. LABOUR'S 'TnJf WENT. INCREASING EMPLOYERS* (rsOK orR °: v * i , nt Ja £g J restoration of the 44-honr*J\' as « statutory obligutioa plovers, and as ono of the ]Lg Governments principal last session, dissiphtes th« those who might have been fofe# eheaperl.omes in tho new cost of building must- incvitah^-s®* Ihe public, including. the % o: course have to pay for hours, for the JS* magnanimous or so stnni? shoulder tho burden themi** J* master carriers, f or example wj!**' cided to increase by 10 L' rates of all cartage/ tul retort is that the raiK®3** benefit from this action, and tbjt A® will now get a lot of the fcLg* which lias prenouslv gone to vate carriers, especially in ri w reported decision of the Raifewri? nusstoners not to increase cith»r or freights as a result of thTil22 week. It is difficult for T fT* Premier to please all portjeTzf within his own movement. He asked by the shop assistants aid not do away with tho UfoT" puiß night, rho shop assistants. matter ot fact aro disgruntled. J c-auso their employers will pn&iUrU gemously get over the 44-hoor fi* V-'' fixm e, the Starting little later and by lengthening luncheon period, thus presmite J? tically the present shopping The same policy will probably took to the clerical workers. Tbea ffito Will be the inevitable clash to iSIS mine whether the State GovmS lias the right to legislate for maZ covered by a Federal award. MrT«z! and his party condemned in ured terms the Legislative when it consisted of what mijSk» termed "free men," as distinct finm what tho Opposition terms tho "rekW stamps" witli whom Labour ane flooded it, but it was tbe r5 -House under the old regime. »«»££? ter of fact, -which assisted ihe Government to put the 44-boTtrtsiS on the Statute Book, beeaese & Ministry claimed that it had a date for it. Incidentally, it «rss & same obnoxious Chamber, before it swamped, that assisted Labour to ag the widows' pensions through. V*