FORTY-FOUR-HOUR WEEK.
AN EXTENSION REFUSED WOULD HAMPER INDUSTRY. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received April 27, 11.30 p.m. Sydney, April 27. A special court under the Eight Hours Amendment Act refused to grant an application for an extension of the fortyfour hour week to the employees of the Broken Hill Proprietary steel-works at Newcastle, Judge Beeby stating it was inexpedient at present to make any industrial change w-hich would increase the coat of production. Foreign competition, he said, had again become a serious menace, which could only be met by a further lowering of prices. The immediate problem is for the company to achieve a producing cost which would enable it further to reduce selling prices, and as the cost of labor is the main element there is a necessity for the company’s employees coming to a new 'basis of wage payments, bearing relation to the local average selling price of iron and steel.— Aus.-NaZ. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 April 1922, Page 5
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155FORTY-FOUR-HOUR WEEK. Taranaki Daily News, 28 April 1922, Page 5
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