The Feilding Star. Oroua and Kiwitea Counties’ Gazette MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1936. MUSSOLINI AND GREEN
It was mentioned in the cabled news last week that Premier All ssolini, in ottering his solutions of tlio problems of to-day, said lie agreed with the American proposition for a shorter working week to provide more employment. This is explained in a report from Cincinnati, the capital of the State of Ohio, U.S.A., where at a conference of delegates the leaders of organised labour in America decided to approach Congress to drive the opening wedge of their campaign for the six-hour day and five-day week. The executive council of the American Federation of Labour, President William Green announced, had agreed to submit legislation to enforce the 30-hour week “for Government employees and for those workers governed under interstate commerce regulations.” It all turns on iilie wage. Will Mussolini pay the 50-hour wage of" to-day for the 30-hour week of to-morrow? <
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Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3932, 16 January 1933, Page 4
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156The Feilding Star. Oroua and Kiwitea Counties’ Gazette MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1936. MUSSOLINI AND GREEN Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3932, 16 January 1933, Page 4
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