MUNITION WORKERS.
ACCELERATION URGED.
UNION DISCOURAGEMENT.
(Received September 17. 11.30 p.m )
London, September 16. Mr. Lloyd George has appointed an influential committee of physicians and industrial experts to advise the Munitions Department regarding industrial fatigue, hours of labour, and matters affecting the health and physical efficiency of workers.
The National Advisory Committee had a conference with 250 trade unionists connected with the munitions output. Mr. Lloyd George, in a lengthy speech, urged acceleration. Concrete proposals were drawn up. Mr. Lloyd George, replying to the Coventry Labour Committee's denial that they had circularised workmen declaring against rapidity of work, quotes a letter signed by the secretary of the committee calling his fellow workmen " non-workmen," because they had finished in 8h hours a job on a howitzer which normally took 13i hours. This, Mr. Lloyd George says, is a regrettable instance, among many, of war-workers being discouraged from assisting the country to their utmost in the hour of need.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16026, 18 September 1915, Page 8
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