REQUEST FOR NATIONAL CABINET
Lrxom uur uwn iteporxer.j FAIRLIE, June 10. A motion that the council request the Prime Minister to form a National Cabinet, put forward by Mr C. V. Kirke, was carried at a meeting of the Mackenzie County Council. A letter was received from the Wallace County Council asking for support for a petition to the Government asking for a 48-hour week, a 50 per cent, cut in holidays, and ordinary rates qf pay for overtime. The proposals in the letter were not favoured, and it was received. It was agreed that workers should be asked to make some sacrifice, and it was decided to point out that if demands for higher wages were made unreasonable local bodies would not be able to meet them, and men would lose their jobs.
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23043, 11 June 1940, Page 8
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