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MORE SHELLS PRODUCED BY HALI THE WORKERS..'. Problems of industrial fatigue and sickness are dealt with, in four memoranda issued on Saturday by the Health, of Munition Workers' Committee. "The true sign of fatigue," it is stated, "is diminished capacity, and the measurement of output in work will give the most direct test of fatigue." Munition workers in general have been allowed to reach a stage of reduced efficiency and lowered health which, might have been avoided without reduction of output by daily and weekly rests. At one largo shell-making factory, on the other hand, every man now has a day off a week. The men work 13J hours a day, less half an hour for breakfast and an hour for dinner, instead of J2 hours a day as formerly. The factory, now produces "an increased number of shells from half the number of workers." At another factory engaged in moulding the output is larger now that the. men rest fifteen minutes in : every hour than it was when they worked continuously. Girls engaged in sedentary work hav« increased their output since bein<» given fifteen minutes in the open air each day.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2772, 16 May 1916, Page 6
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197VALUE OF A DAY OFF Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2772, 16 May 1916, Page 6
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