TWELVE-HOUR DAY.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4593, 20 May 1922, Page 2

TWELVE-HOUR DAY.

FOR AA'IERICAN WORKERS. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.-) (Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.) Washington, May 19. President Harding, dining'with tho executives of the most important steel companies in the United States, urged the voluntary abolition of the twelvehour day. He explained that there was no intention on the part of the Government to interfere with business, but that a great industrial revival was pending and the one hope of abolishing the excessively long work day was to do it before the industry resumed full swing. He said that unless the vote for abolition was unanimous, it would not be practicable. Air Gary recently informed the President that practically 25 per cent of steel employees worked twelve hours..