EIGHT HOUR DAY.
. FEDERAiy AND STATE LABOUR . .. LEADERS. BT TELEGRAM—HtEBS ASSOCIATION—COFTRIGHI Melbourne,, April 28. Tho Eight Hour demonstration was partly spoiled by showery weather.':. Tlie speakers referred to the Braybrook railway disaster, and condemned tho long hours worked' by the. .enginemeh. '' ' .Mr v A.. Fisher, Leader of the.Labour .party, in tho Federal House, declared that the party was too'modest. The unions throughout the Commonwealth must ask themselves , at the >next.election Ywjiether the Federal Parliament should receive increased power to pass .industrial legislation. . . Mr. G. M. Prcndergast, Loader :of the Labour; party in tho Victorian Parliament, declared that on ill questions affecting workers the. States have, given, uj? their powers to the Commonwealth. ■
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 184, 29 April 1908, Page 7
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112EIGHT HOUR DAY. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 184, 29 April 1908, Page 7
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