PRODUCTION AND FORTY HOUR WEEK
#■ Received Wednesday, 7 p.m. AIELBOURNE, Nov. 20. Australians wouid have to learn that post war Australia was a poor country, stated Bir Herbert Gepp, managing director of Australian Paper Manufacturers, Ltd., which is giving evidence in the Arbitration Court in the 40 hour week case. He said the proposal to reduce standard hours of work had to be Ireated with much greater caution than the proposal for adjusting wages and said it was highly probabie, especially when dividends were small, that increases in costs resulting from the 40 hour week would liave to be passed on to the comiuunity in inereased prices. He added that few people wouid contest the social desirabiiity of a redueed working week provided the comiuunity was educated for leisure. Australians had to realise that working liard meant working reasonable hours — at present not less than 44 hours weekly. Unless Australian workers produced, their standards of living would fall and their economic freedom would be endangered.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 November 1946, Page 9
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