40-HOUR WEEK
NATIONAL PARTY VIEW
CANDIDATE'S CHARGE
A statement that the National .Party did not contemplate abolishing the 40----hour week was made by Mr. W. Sullivan, the party's candidate for the Bay of Plenty seat, in. an address to electors at Ormond. The National Party, however, did hold the view that under wartime conditions, where special urgency was required in production, workers in important industries should be asked to work extended hours. The candidate was sure that 99 per. cent, of the workers would gladly do so to assist the war effort, but, he added, the trades union bosses certainly would try to stop them.
' The charge that under the present system of - compulsory unionism the object of many trades union secretaries was to widen the gap between employer and employee, and that at every opportunity they widened the gap, was made by Mr. Sullivan. He said that many workers resented having to contribute substantial annual dues to their unions, especially: as a large proportion of those dues went to keep trades union officials in well-paid jobs. ■■ '.'-.'"• ' '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 134, 3 December 1941, Page 11
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17740-HOUR WEEK Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 134, 3 December 1941, Page 11
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