RAILWAY WORKERS' HOURS.
SIX DAYS'. WEEK. \ Br r»EGEAFn—rtiEss association—coirraiQßt London, December 26. The Midland Railway Company has conccdcd all its employees a sis-days' week, with extra pay for Sundays.. ... ;" ' ' One of the original demands of-tlie Amal: gamated Society of Railway.' Servants, according to Hie "Daily Mail," was that for Sunday duty (from midnight on Saturday to midnight on Sunday) the minimum, payment be rate and a half. ' 1 Other demands wore: Eight hour standard day for all concerned in j tho movement of vehicles; ten hour day for all others, except platelayers; no man to be called out for duty with less than nine hours' I rest; minimum of rate and.a quarter for all time worked over standard hours; advance of 2s. to all grades who do not receive the eight hours' day.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 80, 28 December 1907, Page 5
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133RAILWAY WORKERS' HOURS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 80, 28 December 1907, Page 5
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