SHORTER HOURS.

Grey River Argus, 20 May 1922, Page 5

SHORTER HOURS.

ADVOCATED EY U.S.A. PRESIDENT. VZASHINGTON, May 18. President Harding dined with the executives of the most important steel companies in the United States. He urged the voluntary abolition of the ! 12-hour day in connection with the steel industry. He explained that there j was no intention on the of the Government, to interfere with business, I but said that a great industrial revival I was now impending, and the one hope | of establishing an cxccssvely long workday was to do it before industry resumed full swing. He said that unless the abolition were unanimous, it was not practicable. Air Gary recently informed the President that practically 26 per cent, of the steef* employees worked 12 hours a day. LABOUR WAR IN U.S.A. NEW YORK, May 17. The special police have been instructed to shoot suspicious persons, who fail to comply promptly with orders. This is being done to combat what the officials described as the Labour leaders’ dying attempt to terrorise the city by murders' and fires.