FIVE-DAY WEEK
LESS WORK, MORE JOBS ACCEPTED BY U.S. LABOR NEW YORK, Sept. 4. More than 20,000,000 Americans will soon be working on a five-day week basis—or its equivalent of shorter hours. This is the confident prediction of Mr. Walter C. Tcaglc, who has temporarily surrendered his post of president of the Standard Oil of New Jersey to take charge of tho new “Share the Work” campaign. Mr. Tcaglc hopes to find jobs for from one to two millions of America’s unemployed by inducing employers to join the shorter-working-hours movement. The scheme has already obtained the unqualified support of organised labor, and has been accepted by more tnan 3000 industrial organisations.
“Tho country has been divided into .12 districts for tho purpose of the scheme,'” said Mr. Tcagle, who has already opened an office in New York from which to conduct the drive. “There uv. be separate committees in each district, with one member from each forming a co-ordinating committee. Our purpose is to spread the available jobs among as many workers as possible. Wc have already adopted the five-day week in the Standard Oil of New Jersey, with tho result that there arc 38,000. instead of 30,000 employees on our pay-roll. WORKERS “GLAD”
“Wc are not attempting to impose any hard-and-fast rules. Each industry must decide for itself whether flic five-day week or shorter working days is tho more practicable. “The scheme inevitably calls for sacrifices from those now at work. It is impossible under present conditions to cut. hours without cutting pay, but in our experience the mass of the workers aro glad to make a contribution for the sake of those who have lost the means of livelihood.
“The successful operation of the joh-sharing idea implies the complete co-operation of all bands, from the highest, executive to the lowliest worker.
“So far as I am concerned, this is an emergency measure. When wc have another'era of prosperity it may be advisable to return to longer working hours.” ___
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17918, 24 October 1932, Page 12
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