THOUGHTS OF THE TIMES.
THE NEW ORDER IN RUSSIA. A journalist visiting Russia declares that the Russians now scarcely recognise the day of the week. He says that the average Russian would be frankly puzzled if he were asked whether the day was Tuesday, or Wednesday and consequently when making appointments dt is necessary to stipulate the day of the month and not the day of the week. Russia, generally has adopted an “uninterrupted week” system, under which the people work for five days and rest for one, and in factories and on the State farms work goes on continuously. There is no universal holiday once a week, hut the workers go off for their day’s rest in turns, Sunday, of course, has disappeared and there is no such thing as a “week-end” which has become so popular an institution in Western oountries.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1931, Page 4
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