FORTY-HOUR WEEK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 15 June 1936, Page 5

FORTY-HOUR WEEK

GENEVA DISCUSSIONS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) GENEVA, 13th June. ; ’,V The International Labour Conference textile committee adopted a resp- . - lution proposing discussion of a suggested draft convention for a 40-Jrour week in the textile industry with a , view to its adoption by a full con-, ference in 1936. „ After this Mr Ashurst, British employers’. delegate, announced that the employers’ group, with the exception of the American delegate, would not , further participate in the discussions. OPPOSED bFnEW ZEALAND DELEGATE (Received 15th June, 1.3 5p.m.) LONDON, 14th June. “The Times” Geneva correspondent says that Mr Mitchell, the New Zealand employers’ delegate at the International Labour Conference,, attacked the forty-hour week proposals as threatening serious repercussions in New Zealand, which owing to the vulnerability of her extensive export trade was less able, than any other country in the world to introduce the drastic experiment of mandatorily maintaining the rate of pay previously earned in a forty-four hour week. The passing of such a proposal ;into law would be to send “God’s Own Country” top speed to the Devil—an unenviable experience which he hoped she would be spared. ,v(V