OUTLAY ON ARMS
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT ARRESTED NEW ZEALANDER’S APPEAL AT GENEVA. FORTY HOUR WEEK DISCUSSED. By Telegraph.—Press Association, Copyright. GENEVA, June 9. Mr J. Thorn, New Zealand delegate to the International Labour Office conference, says it is impossible to reconcile the trend in armaments with a programme of social development. He added that the disparity was enormous between expenditure in preparation for war and the small amount available for organising peace. If the international situation continued to deteriorate, the efforts of the International Labour Office to improve the lot of workers throughout the world were doomed.
Governments must strengthen the constructive agencies, working for peace and expand the work of the League of Nations and International Labour Office.
Discussing Labour administration in New Zealapd, Mr Thorn said a wide enforcement of the forty hour week inside and outside the Public Service had a marked effect in improving em■ployment. Opposing the general application of the forty hour week, Mr A. R. Goldie, a Canadian employer, said it would be suicidal for ‘a nation to introduce it when Italy had a sixty hour week exclusive of overtime,, and a similar situation existed in Germany.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1938, Page 2
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