SOUTH AFRICA
WORKERS' HOURS INCREASED
LABOUR PARTY'S GAINS,
»V CABLB—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Sent. 10. 11.20 a.m. CAPETOWN, Sept. 8. The Government has announced that it has decided to discontinue the eighthoar 4ay in the railwa v service. Experience has proved that the cost of working on this basis is prohibitive, and and firemen are to revert to the nine-hour day ticket examiners and guards to ten hours, and other grades according to the nature of their work. Where sufficiently exacting, the hours will fee tatty*ight weekly. The Government recognisesl that the change is unpopular, out is satisfied that it is unavoidable, and hopes that the staff will realise the seriousness of the financial position. - .. *. - CAPETOWN, Sept. 8. The Labour Party won two. byeelections at tHe expense of the South African Partg. . Both were Ministerial •eats, which were vacant owing to election irregularities. 1
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 10 September 1921, Page 11
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143SOUTH AFRICA Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 10 September 1921, Page 11
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