SOCIAL REFORMS IN ENGLAND.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14860, 6 September 1918, Page 3

SOCIAL REFORMS IN ENGLAND.

Reconstructioncommittee's proposals.

and N.Z. Cable Association) (Received Sept. 5, 7.25 p.m.) | London, Sept. 4. ' The Reconstruction ■Committee, on Adult Education recommends, to enable men and women'to develop their intellectual, aesthetic, and- spiritual life, a reduction of the working day to a maximum of eight hou,rs, and reduction of overtimeHo the minimum, witk prohibition of regular night work, and alternative forms of employment to -counteract the depressing mental effect of monotonous work. There should be regular holidays on full pay. The committee condemns tli© existing housing conditions, and appeals for anore consideration for the workers' lot.