PREPARATIONS FOR WAR
LABOUR VIEW EXPRESSED CAUSE OF THE WORKERS LONDON, Jane 8 At to-day's sitting of the conference of the International Labour Office, Mr. J. Thorn, Labour member of the House of Representatives for Thames, New Zealand, said: "It is impossible to reconcile the trend in armaments with a programme of social development." The disparity was enormous between the expenditure on preparations for war and the small amount available for organising peace. If the international situation continued to deteriorate, the efforts of the International Labour organisation to improve the lot of workers all over the world would be doomed.
Governments must strengthen the constructive agencies working for peace and expand the work of the League and the International Labour Office. Discussing Labour administration in New Zealand, Mr. Thorn said the wide enforcement of the. 40-hour week inside and outside the Public Service had had a marked effect in improving employment. In opposing the general application of the 40-hour week, Mr. A. R. Goldie, a Canadian employer, said it would be suicidal for a nation to introduce it when Italy had a 60-hour week, exclusive of overtime, and a similar situation existed in Germany.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23060, 10 June 1938, Page 11
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