40-HOUR WEEK
LABOUR MEMBER'S DEFENCE
Declaring that the 40-hour week stood unassailed and that those asking for extended bmirs were doing so only to make greater profits, Mr. H. E. Combs (Government, Wellington Suburbs), speaking in the Budget debate in the House of Representatives yesterday, appealed for more consideration for the workers who were working extended hours: He cited the case of the Woburn Railway Workshops employees, who, he said, were working a 55-hour Aveek, while some of tjiem were occupied for fi^een liours a day because they could not get homes near the workshops. Chambers of Commerce throughout the country were asking for extended hours, Mr. Combs said. Overhead costs for the industrialists were based on the normal working week, so that when they asked for an extension to 48 hours they were asking for a period of work that would not bear the cost of rent, interest, and other items. That meant that goods produced during the extra hours would bring in additional profit.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 26, 30 July 1941, Page 6
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16640-HOUR WEEK Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 26, 30 July 1941, Page 6
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