SHORTER WEEK IN ONE INDUSTRY
DECISION AT GENEVA CON KEREN C E (Received June 2G, .10.20 p.m.) GENEVA, June 25. The International Labour Conference closed, adopting a convention for a 40-hour week in the glassbottle industry. Consideration of oilier industries was adjourned until 1936. The live incluMrics selected by the International Labour Cifilce for first application of the 40-hour week were public: works undertaken or subsidised by governments, iron and steel, building and contracting, coalmining, and tlu: glass-bottle industry. The hours worked in* the last-named industry are at present only 42 in Great Britain, Norway, Italy, and Czechoslovakia, and 40 in the United States. The amount of labour employed is comparatively small, because of the general use of automatic and semi-automatic machinery. Unemployment in the industry was due in the first place to mechanisation, and has been increased by the depression.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21510, 27 June 1935, Page 11
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SHORTER WEEK IN ONE INDUSTRY
Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21510, 27 June 1935, Page 11
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