CAPE RAILWAYS
EIGHT-HOUR DAY SACRI- ' FICED
IN INTERESTS OF ECONOMY
APPEAL TO THE STAFF.
(UNITED TRUSS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIOHT.)
! (AUITRALUN - MIT ZEALAND CABU ASSOCIATION.)
(Received September 10, 11.30 a.m.)
CAPETOWN, 10th September
The Government has announced that it has decided to discontinue the ■universal eight-hour day in the railway service. Experience has proved that., the cost of working on this foasis is prohibitive. Dri.vers.arad firemen will revert ■to the nine-hour day; and ticket-ex-aminers and guards to ten hours; and other grades to hours according to the nature of their work. Wh«r« the work is sufficiently exacting, the hours will be forty-eight par week. The Government recognises that tlie change will be unpopular, but it is satisfied that it ia unavoidable, and hopes that the staff will realise the (seriousness of- the financial .poaiibion.
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 62, 10 September 1921, Page 5
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131CAPE RAILWAYS Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 62, 10 September 1921, Page 5
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