THE 44-HOUR WEEK

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1924, Page 6

THE 44-HOUR WEEK

CONFERENCE OF UNION REPRESENTATIVES ASSESSORS UPON ARBITRATION COURT. A conference of union representatives was held in the Trades Hall last evening at the instance of the Trades and Labour Council to discuss the position in regard to the much-vexed question of 44 or 48-hour working weeks. Mr. J. Read, president of the council, occupied the chair, twenty-seven unions being represented. The chairman, in opening the conference, expressed satisfaction that the question had been taken up so enthusiastically. Tlie attack upon the hours of tho Working week, said Mr. Read, was world-wide, and was one of the products of the war. It should be resisted by the workers by every means in their power. After full discussion the meeting adopted the following resolutions :—■ That this conference constitute itself into" a deputation to the Government. That a deputation be arranged.to interview the whole of the Labour members at the first opportunity in Parliamentary Buildings, the position to be outlined and requests made that every step possible he taken in Parliament to retain the shorter working week which is now enjo}'ed by New Zealand workers. That this conference urge on the Government to give the right to a union to appoint its own representative to act j on the Court in place of the present ! workers' representative, whom they may j consider unacquainted with their particular conditions, the same right to be extended to the employers.