SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAYS
LONGER WORKING HOURS ' REVERTED TO. Cape Town September 10. The Government has announced that it has decided to discontinue the universal eight-Jiour days in the, railway service. Experience has proved that the cost of working on this basis is prohibitive. Drivers and firemen will revert to tlie nine-hour .day; and ticket-examin-ers and guards to ten hours; and other grades to hours according to the nature of their work. Where the work is sufficiently exacting, tho' hours will bo forty)eight per week. Tho Governmtnt recognises that tho change will be unpopular, but it is satisfied that it is unavoidable, and hopes that the staff will realise that the seriousness of the financial position. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. j
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 299, 12 September 1921, Page 4
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