SIX-HOUR DAY

Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1931, Page 3

SIX-HOUR DAY

■ EXPECTATION IN UNITED • STATES. •With the present wage scale agreement between organised building trades Employers; arid organised- craftsmen in. the UMted States ( expiring in another year, the bmpioyers are discussing the possibility of the six-hour day being broached in the near future at the pre-sent-day pay! A new contract on the Wage, scale must be signed on or before lipid 30, ‘1932, according to Allen EBeals in the “Dow Service Daily Buildidg Beports.'!Mr Beals said that com- ’ inerts among building trades employers indicated their belief that the six-hour day- would be the..... (next (suggested, change- to -follow r the successful enactmerit:_bf ithe- five-cliiy week. . . ’ .7 "Whether’ presentation of the proposed- new building code to the 'Mayor , and Board of Alderman is retarded or accelerated;” 'Mri'Beals writes, “the grow- ’ ing knowledge that this year marks the .end of. the ten-year post-war tax exempt-"'i'riti-Vperiod -in' New York already has had the effect of breaking last year’s habitation construction records for the first ..quarter in three- of the city’s five : bpr6ughs, and has forced up the price fpr 'some basic '-building materials, with nioi'e increases most certainly to follow.” "' ■;■■■■