SHORTER HOURS
EXPERIMENTS ABROAD
UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM
(By'Telegraph.—Presg; Association!) AUCKLAND, February, 14. . Mr. E,. J. Bich.cs, of the Economic Besearch staff of the International Labour Office, returned to New Zealand today on furlough. ,He said that the International Labour Conference, which would meet in Geneva in June, would discuss two subjects of particular interest at the present time. These were the shorter working week and unemployment insurance and relief. Definite experiments with shorter hours, he said, ha'dbeen made in Germany/ Poland, and Czechoslovakia in order to increase employment. In some cases the hourly rate of- pay had been maintained and in others it had been raised. The problem was of great importance, because- even if prosperity returned to the world there would still be considerable unemployment. It was most unlikely that the present depression^ would be overcome without international' action to remove currency and exchange restrictions and lower tariffs. Mr. Eiches expressed the hope that New Zealand would be again represented at the conference in June.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 38, 15 February 1933, Page 5
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