THE 40-HOUR WEEK
PLEA FOR EXTENSION The following resolution aimed at an extension of the 40-hour week was passed at a meeting of the employees of the Otahuhu railway workshops held held yesterday: —"That this meeting, being fully appreciative of the 40-hour week, pledges itself to refrain from doing Saturday morning shopping as an endeavour to have the 40-hour week made possible to other branches of industry and that the Government be pressed to amend the Shops and Offices Act to a 40-hour live-day week."-.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23574, 7 February 1940, Page 12
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85THE 40-HOUR WEEK New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23574, 7 February 1940, Page 12
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