FIVE-DAY WORK WEEK

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 49, 4 July 1929, Page 6

FIVE-DAY WORK WEEK

CONCESSION, TO 150,000 MEN. NEW YORK, The New York building fea.de workers have secured a working week of five days. This fc the greatest victory yet on by the fivedays week movement, 150,000.. men being affected by this decision of | the Building Trades Employers' Asi sociation. I Previously, it is estimated, there i were only 500,000 workers an the ' :United States, including those in the Eord plants, who enjoyed , these hours. The concessions to [the building employees, which include a 10 per cent, rise in pay, will become effective on August 24. If the em : ployers had not yielded their workmen were preparing for a. gigantic ; strike, -which would have' meant the ! stoppage of work on operations va-

lued at £60,000,000. ' JJnlcss the workers secure overtime weekly pay envelopes will be no fatter after the 10 per cent, increase, but they secure the saime I pay for five days as they previously received for 5h days. I; It is recognised by employees that Labour generally is' fighting for a five-days week.