FORTY-FOUR HOUR WEEK.
• « GRANTED IN SOUTH WALES. (By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) {Australian <und N.u. Cabio Association.) SYDNEY, April 13. Mr Justice Booby, sitting as a special tribunal, decided that a 44-bour week should be observed in 46 trades. It was specified that five and a half days, or, in case of agreement, ihe days of eight hours 48 minutes each, should be worked. MANUFACTURER'S PREDICTION. SYDNEY, April lb. Mr F. W. Hughes, managing d;motor of the Combing, Spinning, and Weaving Company, giving evidence before the enquiry into the leather industry', predicted bankruptcy ft Australia if the forty-four-hour week was adopted generally. The world would never recover by a reduction of <vci Icing hours. As compared whh Apiil, 1920, he estimated that the pastoral assets of Australia had fallen to tlia ex. tont of £350,000,000.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17119, 14 April 1921, Page 7
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133FORTY-FOUR HOUR WEEK. Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17119, 14 April 1921, Page 7
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