HOURS OF LABOUR
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(United Press Association — Btf Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
A PROPOSED REDUCTION
BY INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, June 15. A Special Committee: of thte Inter—national Association- for Labour Legislation has met in London, to consider the reduction of working Jiours by intorna.tionial agreement. It was decided that a beginning bemad© with industries working night and day.
It was resolved that the entire iron. and steel industry in Europe ami America is ripe for an eight-hour day, and it was recommended that steps in that direction be taken at the earliest moment.
The Committee considered that an. eight-hour day was also justified, and necessary in the glass, paper, and other continuous industries.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10661, 17 June 1912, Page 5
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117HOURS OF LABOUR Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10661, 17 June 1912, Page 5
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