Fifteen minutes morning and afternoon have been refused to Blackburn Corporation workmen. This proposal by the men, novel for England, was in emulation of naval custom, but, as a councillor pointed out, that custom forms part of the Navy man's engagement contract; Blackburn Corporation employees now have an eight-hour da-y, and the concession 'in the aggregate, had it beau ftrstitod, would have affected consideraSJy the total of hours .worked.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 71, 24 March 1920, Page 2
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