SHORTER WEEK

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 123, 27 May 1933, Page 14

SHORTER WEEK

BUILDING SUBSIDY

UNEMPLOYMENT SCHEME

EMPLOYERS OBJECT

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHEISTCIIUECH, This Day. Tho Unemployment Board is stated to bo contemplating a new building subsidy scheme with a special condition of a short-hour week, probably forty, in order to spread .the work. To this condition the building trade employers strongly object, and have stated their objections to the board. It is believed that if a shorter week ia recognised on subsidised jobs it will soon become a standard in tho trade, and the next thing will be a demand for a full week's wages for a shorter working week. A deputation from the local Builders' Association waited on Mr. P. E. Climie, a member of the board", yesterday to discuss the scheme. The proceedings were in private. Mr. Climie stated subsequently that tho intentions of the board would bo announced by the Minister in clue course. In answer to a question. concerning tho rationing of tho work, ho said that he had no comment to makel. From another source it is learned that the Unemployment Board's scheme involves a substantial subsidy on Avages paid on\ all building, a condition to bo the limitation of the hours of work to forty weekly.