HOURS OF WORK.
WA NG A NUI VIEWS. ■ Per Press Association. WANGANUT, June 18. Members of. the Wanganui Employers’ Association last night criticised the reported statement by Mr A. C. Mitchell, the New Zealand Employers’ Federation delegate at the Labour Conference at Geneva, that the 40-hour week proposals “would send God’s Own Country at top speed to the devil.” The opinion was expressed by members that instructions such as this hy the employers’ executive at Wellington to their representative at Geneva would alienate what confidence still remained with provincial associations. The view was held that with a new era dawning it behoved the Wellington executive to interpret rightly the new order into which New Zealand was entering.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 170, 19 June 1936, Page 7
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117HOURS OF WORK. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 170, 19 June 1936, Page 7
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