FORTY-HOUR WEEK
* —■ — ADOPTION IN TEXTILE INDUSTRY DISCUSSION AT GENEVA GENEVA, June 9. The British Minister for Labour (Mr. Ernest Brown) intervened at the International Labour Conference to oppose the draft convention for a 40-hour week in the textile industry. Mr Brown said that by attempting to isolate the hours of work from wages and other vital considerations. the International Labour organisation was not helping in real progress towards improving labour Conditions. M. Jouhaux, secretary of the French Federation of Labour, scathingly attacked Mr Brown’s speech. He warned the governments, employers, and workers that they would be obliged, in defence of their own national economy, to close their frontiers against countries which did not apply the same conditions of labour, also that their opposition would probably result in a revolt of their own workers, who would be encouraged to follow the French example.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21806, 11 June 1936, Page 13
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