SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT
A DUNEDIN PROTEST. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. At a meeting of muster. butchers to consider the recent amendments to the Shops and Offices Act, fixing the hours of employees at 52 per week, while the Arbitration Court award fixes them at 50, the following'resolution was carried: That the master butchers of Dunedin enter a protest against the recent, amendment to the Shops and Offices Act' We consider that the Government committed a grave and most serious error in passing the said legislation, tie spirit of which we consider most mischievous, inasmuch as it overrides awards of the Arbitration Court, usurps the authority of the Government's own Arbitration Act, is belittling to those administering it, and tends to disturb the harmonious relations existing between employer and employee,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 250, 28 February 1911, Page 5
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132SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 250, 28 February 1911, Page 5
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