BRUSH AT GENEVA
NEW ZEALAND DELEGATE
APPLICATION OF 40-HOUR WEEK
TEXTILE INDUSTRY
United Tress Association—By Slcctrlc Telegraph—Copyright. (Received June 17, 10.30 a.m.)
GENEVA, June 16.
There was a lively exchange at a sitting of the Textile Committee of the International Labour Office Conference between the chairman, Mr. H. T. Armstrong (New Zealand), and Mr. Scholes, a British employers' delegate, the latter saying that New Zealand's textile industry was so small that lessons on the application of the 40-hour week were useless. Mr. Armstrong replied that New Zealand was a small country with lots to learn, but not from British textile manufacturers. "Our textile employers " he said, "are more prosperous than ever, and if British employers with all their experience, could not make a 40-hour week pay they should go to New Zealand to learn about the business."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1937, Page 9
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