40-HOUR WEEK’S RESULTS
TASMANIAN PREMIER DOUBTFUL
HOBART, February 28. “The results of the 40-hour week suggest that its introduction generally in Australia may have been premature,” said the Labour Premier of Tasmania (Mr R. Cosgrove). “It* makes one wonder, when the subsequent results are summed up, whether we were" not too hasty,” he said. “The shorter week was to have been regarded as a prize for diligence and devotion to work, the advent of which would enable the workers to enjoy more leisure in healthy pursuits and cultural vocations. Now, even amid .the present uncompromising international race for world markets and world domination, some Australian unions have announced openly their policy of campaigning for an even shorter working period. On the contrary, every effort should be made to retain the 40-hour week before it is too late.”
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25741, 1 March 1949, Page 5
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