FIVE-DAY WORKING WEEK
EMPLOYERS' ULTIMATUM. A. and N.Z. MELBOURNE. April 27. One thousand five hundred trades unionists engaged in the building trade decided to adhere to the principle of the forty-hour week pending the result of a ballot on the question. If the employers stand strictly to the ultimatum not to employ men refusing to work forty-four hours, the building trade will be paralysed by a suspension of work, which will be half lock-out, half strike. Ninety trades unions participated in the Labour pageant, which was * remarkable for the length and enthusiasm displayed. Advocates of the 40-hour week carried banners •endorsed "Revised version: Five days shalt thou labour, two days shalt thou rest.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17456, 28 April 1920, Page 6
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