FORTY-HOUR WEEK

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12885, 11 June 1936, Page 5

FORTY-HOUR WEEK

BRITISH: MINISTER’S - y OPPOSITION AT GENEVA, NOT SUITABLE TO TEXTILE industry, SCATHING ATTACK BY FRENCH DELEGATE. (U.l'.A. by JBlcc. Tel. Copy ngat). GENEVA, June 9. Mr. Ernest Brown, British Minister for Labor, intervened at the confer-! euce of the International Labor Office to oppose a draft convention for a 40-lio.ur work week in the textile industry. ; Ho said that by attempting to isolate hours of-■ work from wages and other , vital considerations, the international, lahor organisation would hot 1)0 helping, any real progress towards improving labor conditions. • M. JouhiUix, the secretary of the French Federation of Labour, scathingly attacked Mr. Brown’s speech, j Me warned the Governments and employers and workers that they would bo obliged, in the defence of their own national, economy, to close their fron- j tiers against countries' which did not apply the same conditions of labour, and also that their opposition probably would result in revolt among their own workers, who would 1 he encouraged to follow the French cx- : ample. FORTY-HOUR WEEK IN FRANCE. j FIFTEEN DAYS’ HOLIDAY YEARLY. COLLECTIVE CONTRACT'S. (U.P.A. by Elcc. Tel. Copyrigtui PARIS. Juno 9. The Prime Minister, M. Leon Blum, tabled in the Chamber of Deputies to-day, hills for a 40-hour week with holidays of To days with pay annually, collective, contracts, l lie exemption of war veterans from taxation, arid alterations to certain decree laws. He asked the chamber to adopt the measures as matters of extreme urgency. The chamber, by a large majority, approved the measures, and adjoilrriT cd after referring them to commissions. The hill for collective contracts gives a public authority power to arbitrate in case of differences between the parties-respecting the national agreement, and extends the agreement to parties not represented in tiie ngotiations at Paris on Sunday. Textile interests told M. Blum that they would accept the agreement, but drew the attention of the Government to the necessity for a reduction of 'the export tax in order to enable them to defend the markets. LONG OVERDUE. FORTY-HOUR WEEK FOR BRITISH PRINTERS. <U.P.A. by Elen Tel. Copyright*. LONDON, June 9. In his presidential address to the annual conferneco of the Typographical Association at Torquay to-day, the chairman advocated a 40-hour work week. He said it was long overdue. It would not solve the unemployment problem, but would relieve a tragic position.