Lunch break

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33753, 28 January 1975, Page 1

Lunch break

6V.Z. Press Assn—Copyright) SYDNEY, January 27.

A suggestion by miners in Fiji that they should be given a 30-minute “sex break” at lunchtime has been welcomed in Sydney. Mr Barry Unsworth, an organiser for the New South Wales Labour Council, agreed with the Fijians’ claim that workers often were too tired after a full day’s work' to be interested in sex at night.

“It seems to be an Australian phenomenon that we do it over the week-end when we have a couple of days to settle down,” he said.

Mr Ray Wheeler, president of the Building Workers’ Union, said: “A worker has to be happy in

his job, and if this would help it could be a good thing. “It doesn’t have to be productive in the sense of producing children. It is an enjoyable act.”

Mr Wheeler said the Fijian proposal was to have the sex break limited to married men only, but he believed it should be available for all.

If single men had girlfriends who were living close to the work site and were happy about the idea, they should be given the same opportunity, he said. “I have heard chaps say lightheartedly that they go home at lunchtime for a bit of nonsense, although I imagine that is the exception rather than the rule,” said Mr Wheeler.