40-HOUR WEEK
TEXTILES INDUSTEIES
MOTION REJECTED AT
GENEVA
(Received June 19, 10.30 a.m.)
GENEVA, June 18.
The International Labour Office conference rejected a motion to adopt a 40-hour week in the textiles industries this year, and the question is being referred to the various Governments and will become the basis of a draft convention in 1937.
New Zealand, France, and America favoured an immediate convention, and Australia, England, and Japan opposed the idea.
SEAMEN'S HOURS
BRITISH REDUCTION
DECK WORKERS' AGREEMENT
(Received June 19, 10.35 a.m.)
LONDON, June 18. The "Sun-Herald" news agency sayt that as the result of an agreement between the ship owners and the National Union of Seamen, the working hours of thousands of British seamen are to be reduced from 84 to 56 per week, without reduction of pay, as from January 10. This applies to all deck workers, excluding navigating officers and wireless operators, on all ships exceeding 2500 tons.
The negotiations have not been completed regarding engine-room, stok»> hold, and catering departments.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 144, 19 June 1936, Page 9
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16740-HOUR WEEK Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 144, 19 June 1936, Page 9
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