FIVE-DAY WEEK
iU.S. COMPANIES’ DECISION NEW YORK, Aug. 31. i The United States Steel Corporation ‘and other steel companies announce that from to-morrow work will cease ,op Saturdays, with a reduction of 10 ‘ per cent in clerical wages. This order affects about 20,000 employees out of j 100,000 in the United States Steel Cor- ' poration. The reason given is that .Saturday work is irregular and un- ! satisfactory. Until there is a marked J improvement in operations the steel (companies will continue this policy.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18529, 16 October 1934, Page 2
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