SOVIET YEAR
A FIVE DAY WEEK
[United Press Association—By Electric T elegraph.—Copyright. ] (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) BERLIN, Jan. 6. The Soviet Committee charged with the duty of fitting the five days week into the calendar of months and,/years reviewed more than a hundred projects for reform and finally decided to preserve the Gregorian framework. The new year, however, begins on Ist November in honour of the revolution. The years are numbered from 1917. The Soviet Union therefore is now in the third month of the year thirteen.
The year consists of 360 working days and five revolutionary feast days, on which all workshops arc closed.
The year is further divided into four quarters of ninety days and twelve months of thirty days each containing six five day weeks. The five revolutionary feasts always fall on the , thirty-first of the month. The days will be named yellow, pink, red, blue and green, and work men will be divided into five shifts each called'' after the colour of the day on which its members do not work. r r 1 '- months will retain their capitalist names.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1930, Page 5
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