THE FORTY-HOUR WEEK
*0 T*« *DITO* OF T*» 7*l*3 Sir, —I naturally thought that when the Labour Party got in to power and reduced the working hours and advanced the wages it appealed to all workers to help it by sticking to the 40-hour week. Now, being a member of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, I come across a considerable number of our members working on Saturdays and Sundays for other people and at the same time being so-called supporters of the Labour Party. It was only last Saturday and Sunday I saw a member of the society working for a private person and in full view of the public. I think it is about time that inspectors were put on, or if there are inspectors, let them get busy, get out of their offices, get about a hit more, and bring to book these offenders who are simply scabbing on their fellow members of their different unions and the Labour Party’s policy.—Yours, etc., MEMBER OF THE A.S.C. AND J. March 15, 1939.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22661, 16 March 1939, Page 3
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