FORTY-FOUR HOUR WEEK.
MOT FOR STEEL MILLS. COSTS MUST BE REDUCED. (Kecelred 1 p.m.) SYDNEY, thie day. The Special Court under the Eigh Hours Amendment Act refused to gran the application for extension of thi 44-hour week to employees of thi Broken Bill Proprietary Steelworks a Xewcaetle, Mr. Judge Beeby statin) that it was inexpedient at present t< make any industrial change which woul< increase the cost of production. Foreigi competition had again become a eeriou menace, which could only be met b; further lowering of prices. The imme diatc problem was for the company ti achieve a producing cost which woulc enable it to further reduce its selling prices. Ag labour coet was the mall element there wae necessity for thi company's employees coming to a nev baeie of wage payments bearing relatioi to the local average selling price of iroi and steeL 'A hundred dismissal notices hav< been issued to Lithgow Small Anni Factory employees, and more will follow (A. and N.Z. "Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 99, 28 April 1922, Page 5
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