FORTY-HOUR WEEK
MOVEMENT D" BRITAIN REDUCING UNEMPLOYMENT (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 6. The Trades Union Congress at mouth today unanimously carried a resolution urging that the general council consider the putting into operation methods by which the activities of the International Labour Office should.become better known to working classes in Britain and that the necessary pressure be brought upon tha Government in power to ratify conventions agreed to from time to time by tho International Labour Office. This decision" was reached following a discussion yesterday on the demand for a 40-hour "working week as a means of reducing unemployment. A resolution declaring that a shorter working week was essential and was made possible by tho continuous employment of machinery and methods of production and instructing the general council to use every means to induce the Government ia power to adopt a 40-hour working week without reduction in wages or earnings was carried.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 60, 8 September 1934, Page 9
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