NO SATURDAY WORK
QUARRYMEN’S DECISION PROVISIONS OF NEW ACT (Per Truss Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Maintaining that the provisions of the Factories Act apply to them, quarry workers of Auckland, who are members of a union, have decided to refuse Saturday work as from next Saturday. The decision was reached at a meeting last night. About 150 men are involved. The secretary, Mr. T. Stanley, said to-day that the decision was reached after the union had received “unsatisfactory and conflicting statements” from the lion. If. T. Armstrong, the Minister of Labour, and the Labour Department at Auckland on the interpretation of the Factories Act.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19123, 18 September 1936, Page 11
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104NO SATURDAY WORK Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19123, 18 September 1936, Page 11
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