HOURS OF WORK
WOOLLEN MILLS PROPOSAL REJECTION BY COUNCIL BRITISH EFFORT COMPARED (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Tuesday “The combined woollen mills, anxious to meet the new demands for acceleration, suggested in answer to a question by a Government department a 9-hour day for five days, excluding Saturdays,” said the chairman, Mr Barber, at the annual meeting of the Wellington Woollen Manufacturing Company, Limited. “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. “While a vital struggle is going on at Home and workers there are putting in long and arduous hours, the Dominion retains its week of 40 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, a time limit attached, but the hours committee of the Industrial Emergency Council refused the extension of five hours a week.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21196, 20 August 1940, Page 4
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171HOURS OF WORK Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21196, 20 August 1940, Page 4
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