40-HOUR WEEK.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 228, 25 August 1938, Page 11

40-HOUR WEEK.

PROBLEM IN FRANCE. (Times Cables.) ' LONDON, Aug. 24. It is understood that the Premier (M. Daladier) does not intend to lengthen the working week in all industries, says the Paris correspondent of the Times. Industries which are at present working less than a 40-hour week liecause of the absence of orders, or which can obtain extra labour without difficulty, will not be allowed to work more than 40 hours, but, if new labour is not obtainable and if orders cannot be executed because of tlie restrictive effects of the 40-hour week, authority will be given to work 48 hours at an overtime rate of 10 per cent, above the normal. WORKERS’ OPPOSITION. PREMIER’S POLICY CONDEMNED. PARTS, Aug. 24. M. Blum, the Socialist leader, in-a telephone talk with M. Daladier, urged liim to take a middle course acceptable to tlie Socialists even to enabling their participation in the Cabinet.

Delegates representing 1,000,000 metallurgical workers condemned M. • Daladier’s attitude over tlie 40-hour week. Union syndicates and tlie National Railway' Union passed a resolution of a similar nature, while 43.000 miners have threatened to strike next month if wages are not revised and a 38|-hour week is not given.