BRITISH TEXTILE FIRMS SNUBBED
HON. ARMSTRONG AT GENEVA APPLICATION OF FORTY HOUR WEEK . “Come To New Zealand To Learn Business” Pleas Association —Copyright. (Received 1.30 p.m.) Geneva, June 16.. A lively exchange occurred at a meeting of the Textfile Committee between Hon. H. T. Armstrong, Minister of Labour, New Zealand, and the chairman; Mr Scholes, representing British employers. The latte r stated that New Zealand’s textile industry was so small that the lessons in the application of a forty-hour week were useless. Mr Armstrong replied that New Zealand was a; small country i:nd had lots to learn, but not from British textile manufactur-e-rs. “Our textile employers are more prosperous than -ever,” he stated. “If British employers, with all their experience, cannot make a forty-hour week pay, they should go to New Zealand to learn their business.”
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 459, 17 June 1937, Page 5
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136BRITISH TEXTILE FIRMS SNUBBED Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 459, 17 June 1937, Page 5
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