FACTORY LEGISLATION.
CONDITIONS IN BAKERIES. MINISTER PROMISES BILL. Australian Press Association—United Service LONDON. Oct. 25. A deputation from t.he Trades Union Congress and the affiliated unions interviewed Sir William Jovnson-Hicks, Home Secretary, to urge improved factory legislation to prevent night baking and undue overtime, and providing for the better washing of clothes and drying accommodation. They also asked for a weekly rest period and for a woman to attend to injured women where a male attendant was undesirable.
Sir William promised that if the present Government was returned after the election an amending bill -would bo introduced at any early date.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20088, 27 October 1928, Page 13
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