11-Hour Day , 4-Day Week
(Rec. 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 31. Leaders of the engineering and shipbuilding unions are asking members to agree to an 11-hour day in a fourday week, says the Daily Express. These and all other industries face the winter prospect of stopping com- ! pletely for one day each week to stagger the electricity load. The extra time is intended to make up lost production. Delegates from the Shipbuilding and Engineering Confederation will begin discussions when they arrive at Southport tomorrow for the TUC meeting. Union leaders propose that hours between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. should be counted as normal working, with no ,overtime pay. Dismantling Industry In German Zone (Rec. noon) HAMBURG, Aug. 31. The Department of Mines and Metal Industries, in the Soviet zone, announced that dismantling had started of German mining equipment for reparations, which was postponed in 1945 and again in 1946. Dismantling also is taking place in the power industry. The Soviet military administration, when it acceded to the German Socialist Unity Party’s request last January to suspend the dismantling of industries. made an exception of seven coal mines, the machinery of which was required for reconstruction of mines devastated in Russia.
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Northern Advocate, 1 September 1947, Page 5
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