PITTING ON THE CLOCK.
SYMPATHY FOP, PRESSMEN. A deputation waited on the Smith Acs trtlian Premier last week, and nd-md him to put 'in Die clock an hour, and llr.is economise dayiight. The Premier IMr Verran). in reply, raid he believed in th-a i.ysk'in, :::v\ would endeavor to get his colleagues to agicr io the !ir>-i-uin:t':it introducing a Bill. In course of his reply lie added: "Take Uv.-e young feiloirs o:i the Press. I've got ;i lot of sympathy for them. This i>- in... sentiment. ; ] mean it. If there is anything exlta to be dune at nights they have get to .-stay tijt and do it, and then get ti their jo!v. r:i the lie: f,ii.-g. I've watched their work, ami I know wit it- I'm talking about. They can't keep that pressure up fo- very long. Nobody should- be allowed to work at such high pressure that the human machinery k knocked out 10 years lie fore it ought to be."
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Evening Star, Issue 14632, 31 July 1911, Page 4
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162PITTING ON THE CLOCK. Evening Star, Issue 14632, 31 July 1911, Page 4
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