BOOT INDUSTRY
WORKING OF GIRLS
SATURDAYS ALREADY OPEN
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, August 4
"We have been working girls on Saturday mornings off and on for a year," stated a leading boot executive, referring to the Auckland message.
He knew nothing of a request to the federation, nor could he understand the implication that any concession had been made, he said.
The chief officer of the Labour Department, Mr. Cadwallader, dismissed the message as erroneous. He said that factories had the right to work female and youth labour for 90 hours' overtime yearly. No longer a period than 3 hours could be worked, but there was no restriction whether the period was worked on Saturday morning or at night. No request to work four hours on Saturday had been made and the maximum permissible under the Factories Act was not exceedable.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 31, 5 August 1939, Page 24
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BOOT INDUSTRY
Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 31, 5 August 1939, Page 24
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