MILKMEN’S HOURS
SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT APPLICABLE [Per United Press Association.] February 12. The provisions of the Shops and Offices Act in regard to hours _of work apply to milk vendors, according to a reserved judgment delivered by Mr Reid, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. The Magistrate said that they must look .-at the general purport of the statute. It was a remedial Act, and its object was to regulate and ameliorate the/working conditions of employees in shops and offices and analogous businesses. It was clear that, generally' speaking, the Act was intended to apply to milkmen, and it would be unreasonable to hold that the defendant in this case could escape the statute. If he could do so, ho could compete on unequal terms with other milk vendors who conducted their businesses in such a manner as to firing them, in any case, within the scope of the Act.
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Evening Star, Issue 22571, 12 February 1937, Page 8
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151MILKMEN’S HOURS Evening Star, Issue 22571, 12 February 1937, Page 8
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