TRADES COUNCIL CONFERENCE.
[Per Press Association.! DUNEDIN, April 22. At the Trades Council Conference it was decided to ask the Government to amend the Workmen's "Wages Act to make it compulsory on the part of employers to pay wages to their manual labourers at intervals not exceeding one week. It was resolved — " That the Conference enters its protest against the practice of unnecessary Sunday work creeping in on the railways of the colony, also the Conference appeals to workers generally to endeavour to minimise unnecessary Sunday work." The delegates in the afternoon went to Mosgiel and visited the woollen mills.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5851, 23 April 1897, Page 1
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100TRADES COUNCIL CONFERENCE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5851, 23 April 1897, Page 1
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