40-HOUR WEEK OPPOSED
“‘Not Real Progress” (United Press Assn.— Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Geneva, Junei 9. The British Minister of Labour (Mr Ernest Brown), intervened at the International Labour Conference to oppose the draft convention for a 40-hour week in the textile industry. He said that by attempting to isolate hours of work from wages and other vital considerations the International Labour Organization was not helping real progress towards improving labour conditions. M. Leon Jouhaux, Secretary of the French Federation of Labour, scathingly attacked Mr Brown’s speech. He warned governments, employers and workers that they would be obliged, in defence of their own national economy, to close their frontiers against countries which did not apply the same conditions to labour. He warned them also that their opposition would probably result in the revolt of their own workers, who would be encouraged to follow the French example.
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Southland Times, Issue 22913, 11 June 1936, Page 5
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