FORTY-HOUR WEEK
CANADIAN OPPOSITION. fBY CABLE PRESS ASSN. COPY RIGHT.) — ■ -MWH (Rc-cd. June 9, 2.30 p.m.) GENEVA, June S. The New Zealander, Mr Thorn, at the International Labour Office Conference, said: “It is impossible to re-, concile the trend of armaments with a. programme of social development.” lie said that the disparity was enormous between expenditure in pre? paration for war and the small amount available for organising peace- “If the international situation continues to deteriorate, the efforts of this organisation to improve the lot of workers throughout the world are doomed. Governments must strengthen the constructive agencies working for peace, expand the work of the League of Nations, and the international Labour Office.”
Discussing Labour administration in New Zealand, Mr Thorn said the wide enforcement of the forty-hour week inside and outside the public service nad a marked effect of improving employment. Opposing tne general application of the forty-hour week, Mr A. R. Goldie, a Canadian employer, said it would be suicidal for a nation to introduce it when Italy had a sixty-hour week, exclusive of overtime, and a similar situation existed in Germany.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 June 1938, Page 2
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