WORK AND LEISURE
SHORTER SHIFTS AND LOWER WAGES SIR OLIVER LODGE’S SCHEME LONDON, Monday. Sir Oliver Lodge, in an address at Croydon, said people needed more leisure for education. They ought not to spend the whole day in routine work. In many industries the employees worked in three eight-hour shifts. Why not four six-hour shifts? In that way more people would be employed. More time would be given for self-develop-ment for the sake of which workers ought to accept necessarily lower wages. At present the people were divided into two classes —the overworked and the unemployed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 912, 4 March 1930, Page 9
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96WORK AND LEISURE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 912, 4 March 1930, Page 9
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