SATURDAY STRIKE IN BELGIUM
Workers’ Drive For Five-Day Week
(Rec. 8 p.m.) BRUSSELS. July 6. More than 640,000 Roman Catholic workers belonging to the Belgian Confederation of Christian Trade Unions will strike every Saturday from this week to support their claims for a five-day working week. The strike, called by the confederation’s congress in Brussels last night, also aimed at obtaining a guaranteed minimum wage of 20 francs (about 3s) an hour.
Several private firms and municipal administrations recently adopted the five-day working week for the firs! time.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27705, 8 July 1955, Page 11
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