EIGHT HOUR DAY.
POSED FOR FRENCH MARINE.
Press Association —Cop} right. ■ ,y ;l end N.Z. Cable Association. ..ceved 8.40-p.m., November 17.) PARIS, November 16. The French shipping world is a.tuned at the Bill to establish an e.-ni-liour day for all shipping comp.uiies. They protest that this would mean complete ruin, unless the Government is prepared to make good the loss. Whereas a British, Norwegian,. Italian or German ship would require fourteen men, working twelve hours a day, a French vessel, of the same class, yrould require twenty.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 18 November 1924, Page 7
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87EIGHT HOUR DAY. Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 18 November 1924, Page 7
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