WAR INDUSTRY
QUESTION OF OVERTIME PAY. CONCESSIONS BY AMERICAN r LABOUR. lEv Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) WASHINGTON, March 25. Yielding to requests from the Administration, the Congress of Industrial Organisations* and the American Federation of Labour announced that their members would forgo some of the extra pay that has been the subject of fierce Congressional controversy. The executive board of the C. 1.0. has recommended that its affiliated unions forgo overtime pay for Saturday, Sunday and holiday work when such work is performed within the 40hour week. However, the C. 1.0. president, Mr Philip Murray, emphasised that the unions still demand overtime pay for work done on the sixth and seventh day of the work week in accordance with the current contracts. The president of the American Federation of Labour, Mr William Green, simultaneously issued a statement that his organisation had assured the Government that it would waive double time payment for Sunday and holiday work in all war industries for the duration of the war. He added that this policy was already operating in most instances, citing specifically 1 500.000 building trades workers and 100,000 metal trades workers in the west coast shipyards.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 March 1942, Page 4
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193WAR INDUSTRY Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 March 1942, Page 4
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