FORTY=HOUR WEEK.
AN APPLICATION REFUSED BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOC: ATION—COPYEIGHT Received 11.25 n.m. to-day. BRISBANE, Sept. 21.
The Beard of Trade' has refused the application of the building trades to grant them a. forty-hour week. The trades claimed that as they had already been working a. forty-four hours’ week when the hoars of other workers were reduced from forty-eight to fourty-four, they should have a corresponding reduction. The board stated that the legislature could not be assumed to have intended a general ail-round reduction, or it would have specially said so.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 21 September 1926, Page 7
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90FORTY=HOUR WEEK. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 21 September 1926, Page 7
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