EIGHT-HOUR DAY

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 62, 10 September 1924, Page 5

EIGHT-HOUR DAY

INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION

EFFECT OF LONG HOURS IN

GERMAN.

(UNITED PRESS ■■ASSOCIATION.—COPXRIGHT.)

(PUBLISHED IN THB TIMES.)

.: : BERNE,; Bth September., The British, French, and Belgian Ministers met here to-day to discuss the application, of the Washington Eighthour Labour- 'Convention. The special object of the,'convention is to .secure, if possible, the simultaneous application of the convention. ■Af;present each country is waiting for the others, but some action is becoming necessary owing to the ettect of the Gormaii Government's order ot December last, authorising the extension of the hours of work by over 50 per cent. Workers in the industrial districts in "Germany: are-.working more than eight, hours a day)- while in Saxony and. Rhenish' Westphalia they are working over 54; hours a week Germany s neighbours , are being affected" and competition is' likely to. be intensified when German industries are refurnished with capital;.under the Dawes scheme. The meeting will attempt to secure the official adhesion of all Governments to an identical convention, which none will then be able to. repudiate without notifying the others. „ .