FIVE-DAY WEEK.
Unprecedented Control of Production. AMERICAN PROPOSALS. (Received 2.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April 18. Unprecedented Federal control of production by industry will be permissible under amendments to the Five-Day Week Bill, proposed to the Houso of Representatives Labour Committee by Miss Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labour. Besides production control, Miss Perkins also suggested the inclusion of a minimum wage provision.
Members of the committee said that production control was suggested as a means of equalising the hours of industry and preventing any one concern from obtaining virtual monopoly. Any plant, under the general terms of'the Five-Day Week Bill, it was pointed out, could run for 24 hours a day by employing four six-hour shifts. Another plant less fortunately situated as to available workers, might have to reduce production as well as hours of labour.
An amendment suggested by Miss Perkins would let a new Federal Board decide as to how many hours 'each week a manufacturer was entitled equitably to operate his plant. It was pointed out that such authority might also be used to pi-event surpluses of any particular kind of goods and thus keep prices U P-
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 91, 19 April 1933, Page 7
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