SIX-DAY WEEK

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17454, 31 December 1930, Page 7

SIX-DAY WEEK

ROAD TO PROSPERITY ARCHBISHOP KELLY’S VIEWS SYDNEY, December 22. “In point of principle, we would be happier and better off if we worked six days a week and full hours; then there would lie prosperity in Australia.’'

The foregoing declaration was made by Archbishop Kelly in an address at the ceremony of blessing of a grotto established at Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Milson’s Point, yesterday afternoon.

“Men are not to be degraded when they work honestly,” said Dr. Kelly. “God did not make women and girls to do man’s work, ‘Six days slialt thou labor and the seventh shall be a day of rest.’ St. Mary’s Basilica is a great work. Because the workmen would not work six days a week, tho completion of the cathedral was prolonged a year and a half. It would not he finished yet if left to tho stonemasons. It left us £70,000 in debt. What good did that do them, “Those who understand say that there is nothing before us but bankruptcy and ruination. The unions will step in and say, {you must pay that man the full basic wage,’ when such is impossible. A contractor will sav ho cannot do a job for less than £3O, but the person concerned can only spend £l2 and the job is not done.”

In condemning time-payments on player-pinnos. Archbishop Kelly advocated cultivation of the homo circle.