40 HOUR WEEK
BRITISH GOVT.’S ATTITUDE. [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] / RUGBY, June 23. The Minister of Labour defended the Government’s record in connection with the League’s International Labour Organisation, against the Labour Party’s attack, in the Commons. Mr Brown said the British Government could not be accused of not being sympathetic to the work of the International Labour Office. They had given it consistent support. The total number of conventions ratified’ by Britain was the highest, with the exception of Spain, of any European country. Mr Brown deprecated the confusion of the question of general support to the International Labour Organisation, and the question of particular support of the forty-hour week proposal; He said he could not go to Geneva and pretend the British Government agreed to a policy which was badly founded, which was incomplete in itself, and contained proposals which no joint council of any industry in the United Kingdom would accept.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 June 1937, Page 9
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