40-HOUR WEEK
FARMERS PROTEST
WORK HAMPERED
(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, March 4. A strong protest against the retention of the 40-hour week in the present state of the war was made by Mr. J. W. Earl at a meeting today of the North Canterbury district executive of the Farmers' Union. "The enemy is at our back door," said Mr. Earl, "and the Government has not got the guts or backbone to suspend the 40-hour week." Farmers were working all hours and when their children grew up they would be ashamed to admit that they had permitted the things they were permitting in 1942, he said. Later, in a discussion on wheatgrowing, Mr. A. M. Carpenter said that while newspapers, grain merchants, and others were pointing out the responsibility of the farmer to grow wheat, farmers, while accepting that responsibility, reserved the right to "point out certain facts." Farmers worked, he said, with no stopwork meetings, no strikes, and no demands
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1942, Page 8
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15840-HOUR WEEK Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1942, Page 8
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