FORTY-HOUR WEEK
INVITATION BY FEDERAL PRIME MINISTER, (Received 23rd May, 2.30 p.ni.) CANBERRA, This Day. The Prime Minister, the Hon. J. A. Lyons, in the House of Representatives, virtually invited unions to launch an inquiry into the practicability of a forty-hour week by filing a plaint in the Federal Arbitration Court. Mr Lyons said the Commonwealth Government would welcome such an application to the Court by all organisations interested, and would do everything in its power to facilitate the proceedings and the presentation of all relevant evidence.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 23 May 1936, Page 2
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