FORTY-FOUR-HOUR WEEK
MB THEODORE’S TROUBLES. i Pros# Awooiation—By Telegraph—Copyright, j Australian and N.Z. Press Association. | BRISBANE, December 10. (Received December 10, at 11.5 a.m.) Mr Theodore, in addressing tho Trades and Labor Council, explained that because of the economic consequences the Government had been unable to introduce 1 a uniform forty-four-hour week. There | were already 143 a wards in force prescribing forty-four hours, which would be reduced another four if such legislation wos enacted. He urged the unions to approach the Arbitration Court, and to demonstrate that tho existing production would be maintained if the hours were reduced, and to achieve their object in that direction.
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Evening Star, Issue 18503, 10 December 1923, Page 6
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