WORK AND WAGES
NEWCASTLE MINERS. THE'BUILDERS' STRIKE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEWCASTLE, January 7. (Received January 7, at 9.49 a.m.) Three collieries in the Newcastle district are idle owing to a disagreement, with the miners. MELBOURNE, January 7. About 2,000 men have resumed work in the building trade, giving employment, indirectly, to another thousand. The Rockbampton (Queensland) Early Closing Association recently scored a great victory in the fight for tho Saturday halfhoJiday. The polls taken lately resulted in 1,408 votes being cast for Saturday as the half-holiday, as against 701 for Thursday. This is exactly opposite to the feeling in New Zealand, which is almost unanimously in favor of the half-holiday being held in the middle of tho week, so far as business places are concerned.; Tho artisans and factories have always observed Saturday as the half-holiday, and no change need be feared in this respect. The meetings will be held ibis month by the local bodies to formally declare what day shall be observed for the next twelve iflßnths.
The New South Wales Parliament are considering a Bill to provide for the closing of hairdressers' shops one afternoon a week. This step has been found necessary because master barbers are defeating the intention of present laws by sub-letting barbers' chairs on what should be a half-holiday.
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Evening Star, Issue 13013, 7 January 1907, Page 6
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216WORK AND WAGES Evening Star, Issue 13013, 7 January 1907, Page 6
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