GENEVA DISCUSSION
HOURS OF DECK RATINGS
GENEVA, October 17,
A maritime conference committee discussed a Swedish proposal for a 56----hour week with a maximum of six additional hours for deck raings in vessels of a minimum tonnage 0f,2000.
French and American employers alone accepted the proposal. Others refused to participate further.
When the proposal was adopted as a basis of discussion, Mr. Jenkins, assistant secretary to the British Board of Trade, said that Britain would not accept a lower tonnage than 2500, which was the demarcation between the two-watch and the three-watch systems. Britain would accept 56 working hours with an additional eight. Britain was aiming at a three-watch system on this basis for ships not exceeding 2500 tons. India, Japan, and Poland generally supported Britain.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 18, 19 October 1936, Page 9
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126GENEVA DISCUSSION Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 18, 19 October 1936, Page 9
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