SIX O'CLOCK CLOSING

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 128, 31 May 1916, Page 7

SIX O'CLOCK CLOSING

DISCUSSION IN SYDNEY.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received May 31, 9.30 a.m.) : ! SYDNEY, This Day. j ' The secretary of the Federated Liquor Trades Unions claims that 6 o'clock t closing will mean that from 3000 to 5000 men and women will be thrown out of I employment in New South Wales. The Alliance replies that the resultant improvement in- other avenues of work from the carrying of 5 o'clock closing will absorb any idle labour. The Alliance asks: Would the Poli- ,- tical Labour League Conference have carried a resobnion in favour of 6 o'clock closing if the, cause Of the workers would suffer thereby? The Sydney Morning Herald in a leader accepts the Referendum as a war precautionary measure, and advocates 6 o'clock straight out. It says:— "lt haa been proved by demonstration that the free use of liquor saps discipline, weakens resolution, and undermines .the constitution of those going to the front. A . sharp distinction must be drawn between what is fair *nd proper in times of peace and in times of war,, and so -serious is" the struggle now waging in Europjj that we can afford to run no unavoidable risks."