WORKERS' LOT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 134, 9 June 1938, Page 7

WORKERS' LOT.

SOCIAL PROBLEMS.

Armament Costs Overshadow

Work for Peace.

NEW ZEALAND M.P. AT GENEVA United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 12."0 p.m.) LONDON. June 8. Mr. J. Thorn, M.P., Labour member ; for Thames, New Zealand, at the | International Labour Office meeting, ;said: "It is impossible to reconcile the trend in armaments with a pro- ! gramme of social development." ! He added that the disparity was I enormous between expenditure on pre- ! paration for war and the small amount I available for organising peace. If the j international situation continued to deteriorate, efforts or this organisation to improve the lot of workers all over the world would he doomed. Governments must strengthen con- ' structivc agencies working for peace and expand the work of the League and the , 1.L.0. j I Discussing fiabour administration in I | New Zealand. Mr. Thorn said the wide enforcement of the 40-hour week inside and outside the public service had a j ! marked effect in improving employment. 1 Opposing the general application of ; the 40-hour week. Mr. A. R. Goldie. a j Canadian employer, said it would he I suicidal for a nation to introduce it , when Italy had a (10-hour week, exclusive lof overtime, and a similar situation ; existed in Germanv. I 1 =====