KING SOLOMON MINE
Men Reduce Working Hdurs To Forty By Telegraph—Press Association. Invercargill, September 16. As the result of employees refusing to work on»Saturdays for the past two weeks, the King Solomon deep lead mine at Waskaia has been working a five-day week. The men decided to reduce their working hours from 48 to 40 from the beginning of this month, and the management, of the company declares that their action was taken without consultation with the employers. Several of the men stated to-day that they had no intention of reverting to the six-day week of 48 hours. They declared that the manager had made no comment on their decision not to work on Saturdays, and had not approached them to resume Saturday work.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 302, 17 September 1936, Page 11
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124KING SOLOMON MINE Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 302, 17 September 1936, Page 11
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