SHORTER WORKING WEEK

Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1930, Page 11

SHORTER WORKING WEEK

EFFECT ON UNEMPLOYMENT CHRISTCHURCH CITY SUGGESTION. CONFERENCE MAKES PROPOSALS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. “This meeting, recognising the trouble of unemployment to those involved and the expense to the community of the present method of relieving it, suggests that some shortening of hours may be a means of making more equal the chances of all kinds of suitable employment being available, and recognises the difficulty of extending this to all vocations, but that when tim© comes for testing it all present will be prepared to take their share of the sacrifice needed when it can be applied-to the whole community.” * ' ' ■■• This resolution was passed this evenirif at a conference between a special committee of the City Council, members of the staff and employees to consider a proposal in a resolution carried at a meeting of the council for the introduction of a ■ 44-hours working week for the council’s employees, the purpose being to relieve unemployment. The meeting was boycotted by the larger groups of the employees, of the City Council. . The proposal in the council came from Mr. A. E. Armstrong, a young Independent Labour representative, and was fiercely opposed by the Labour Mayor and councillors.