INTERNATIONAL LABOUR
HOURS OF AGRICULTURAL WORKERS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, October 29. The “Observer’s” correspondent at Geneva states that the supporters of the French objection to an agricultural eight-hour day included Messrs Cookeon, Barrett and McKnight* (Australia), also the employers’ and Government delegates of Britain, Canada and South Africa. The conference, after an exciting debate, defeated, by 90 votes to 17, France’s attempt to exclude the question of agricultural.. labour from the scope of the Washington Conference. Italian and British delegates intimated that the movement aimed at a redisoossion at agricultural labourers’ hours of work. "
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11046, 1 November 1921, Page 6
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