40-HOUR WEEK
NO SIT‘PORT FROM BRITAIN WASTE OF TIME DISCUSSING IT fAust. and N.Z. Cable) Rugby. Jan. 31. During the discussion on a proposal for an hour’s convention laying down an average working wt*ek of 40 hours at the Geneva International Labour Conference, the British Government: delegate urged that time should not Ik* wasted on tlie proposal. which on close examination must he regarded ax impracticable. He drew attention to the economic, financial and technical difficulties and anticipated if a convention were drawn up a large number of countries would not ratify it. Legislation to effect such a change in Britain would cause an acute controversy, and if the proposal were adopted it would not appreciably contribute to the solution of the unemployment problem.
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Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3930, 13 January 1933, Page 5
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