WAR EFFORT
AND FORTY=HOUR WEEK
SMALL EXTENSION REFUSED IN WOOLLEN MILLS.
MR BARBER ON "HYSTERICAL OUTBURST.” (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “The combined woollen mills, anxious to meet the new demands for acceleration, suggested, in answer to a question by a Government department, a nine-hour day for five days excluding Saturdays,” said the chairman of directors (Mr W. H. P. Barber, at the annual meeting of the Wellington Woollen Company. "Therefore there is no apparent justification, so far as the woollen industry is concerned, for the hysterical outburst about ulterior motives to wreck the 40-hour week. Whilst a vital struggle is going on at Home and workers there are putting in long and arduous hours, the Dominion retains its week of forty hours, with other amenities which must be a drag on its war effort. This small response to the Prime Minister's appeal to work as never before could have been made temporarily, or as a safeguard with a time "limit attached, but the Hours Committee of the Emergency Council refused an extension of five hours al week.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1940, Page 6
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179WAR EFFORT Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1940, Page 6
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