FORTY-HOUR WEEK
Dunedin Workers’ Alarm
By Telegraph— Press Association. Dunedin, February 20. Building trade workers employed on the Dunedin Post Office contract at a meeting unanimously passed the following resolution, to be forwarded to the Minister of Labour (the Hon. H. T. Armstrong) :— “This meeting notes with alarm statements by the. Minister of Labour Indicating his unwillingness to introduce a 40-hour week and demands that the Government honour its election pledges by the immediate introduction a.s a national measure of a 40hour week without reduction of pay. also the full restoration of all wage cuts.”
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 134, 2 March 1936, Page 5
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