40-HOUR WEEK IN DOMINION
Mr Savage Denies Abandonment
ARTICLE IN SYDNEY NEWSPAPER
REPORTED STATEMENT BY CABINET MINISTER
(United Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 21. “They needn’t worry about that. There is no chance in the world of us abandoning the 40-hour week,” said the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) this evening when his attention was directed to the following statement in a recent article by the Wellington correspondent of The Sydney Morning Herald:—
The increasing pressure of imports may force the abandonment of the 40-hour week. In fact, one of the three foremost members of the Cabinet has declared to your correspondent that the Government has made a mistake in bringing this into operation.
“Referring to what is reported to have been said~by one of the three foremost members of the Cabinet,” _Mr Savage said, “no member of the Cabinet has ever declared that view to me. The Cabinet has been united and enthusiastic about the 40-hour week. I can hardly imagine that such a statement was ever made to anybody.” The same correspondent also referred to the “hole made in the workers’ comes by steadily mounting prices.” In reply to this Mr Savage said that steadily mounting prices were not peculiar to' New Zealand. It happened to be a universal experience from one end of the world to the other today.
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Southland Times, Issue 23541, 22 June 1938, Page 4
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22440-HOUR WEEK IN DOMINION Southland Times, Issue 23541, 22 June 1938, Page 4
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