FORTY-HOUR WEEK.
IN TEXTILE INDUSTRY. HELD IN ABEYANCE. Received June 19, 9.45 a.m. GENEVA, June 18. The International Labour Office Conference rejected the motion to adopt the 40-hour week in the textiles industry this year and the question is being referred to the various Governments to become the basis of a draft convention in 1937.
New Zealand. France, and America favoured an immediate convention, and Australia, England, and Japan opposed it.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 170, 19 June 1936, Page 11
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