HOURS OF LABOUR.
EXTENSION JN RUSSIA. AUTHORITIES' EXPLANATION. / T?InA, Juiip 1. The Soviet authorities have reintroduced an eight-hour day. I hey explain that the eighth hour is only for "cornj'Milsury practice. Officials attribute the alteration to the remands of the workers themselves, who mo alleged to be clamouring for permis-f-inn to work an extra hour. J lie Com jnissar of Labour has abolished propaganda meetings in working hours, ■which must in future be devoted exclusively to working.
MINERS OF THE WORLD, CONVENTION AT GENEVA. (Received Juno 0. 0.45 p.m.} . GENEVA, June 2. The committee appointed by the International Coal Conference adopted, by 30 votes to 15, the suggestion in the Labour Office's draft convention that the working day of mineis throughout the world should not exceed 72 hours. It rejected the workers' proposals for a seven-hour day and I.Jio employers' for an eigbtJaour day, both by 29 votes to 16.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20889, 3 June 1931, Page 9
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