SHORTER WORKING WEEK

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19044, 18 June 1936, Page 12

SHORTER WORKING WEEK

N.Z. DELEGATE'S COMMENT MANUFACTURERS' REPLY (For Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. Commenting in-day upon Iho views reported to have boon expressed l»J' Mr. A. C. Mitchell, president of the New Zealand Employers' FodoniHon iii; the, International Labour Confer' cur'c al Geneva, as to the |»o>.-lblo effort of the -10-hour week in Xe-w Z-enlaud, Mr. A. W. Nisbett, secretary of the Wellington Manufacturers' Association, said 1 h:i 1 it was regrettable that Mr. Mitchell had made so swooping a staloment a.-; coming from all iho employers ol llio Dominion. In fact, wiid Mv. Nisbeti, llio New Zealand employers were not al all "I one mind thai a disaster such as Air. Mitchell so gloomily foresaw would descend upon ihe liominion, .Mr. Mitchell, continued Mr. Nisbeft, had left Now Zealand al the stage of [lie discussion when the proposals of the Government had .been far from fully discusser! and understood by employer," and ihe publie generally, and though a section of the employers did hold ihe views expressed by .Mr. Mitchell at Geneva, Mr. Mitchell would have recognised, had he been able to follow recent discussions, that New Zealand manufacturers had

ciearly stated both to (he members of ihe Government and publicly, thai they were not opposed |o shorter hours and higher wages, provided they were given a siiliieieui measure of protection to allow them to operate and employ al least as many men as were at present ongagod in industry.