PRINTING TRADES
AGREEMENT AS TO HOURS By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, October 3. A complete agreement was reached to-day in the printing and related trades dispute. Workers on a 44 hour week will be reduced to 42 hours over a five-day week in the case of commercial printing offices. Linotype workers on a 42 hour week will be reduced to 41. All the above will be called upon to work 40 hours per week at the ordinary rates, and when this is exhausted the 42 hour and 41 hour week will be established. All hours above the reduced hours will be overtime. The reduced hours do not apply .o towns with a population of under six thousand.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20540, 5 October 1936, Page 8
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116PRINTING TRADES Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20540, 5 October 1936, Page 8
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