TWELVE-HOUR DAY IN AMERICA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16738, 20 May 1922, Page 18

TWELVE-HOUR DAY IN AMERICA.

' By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrj| ht Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON, May 19. President Harding, dining with th© executives of the mo-t important steel companies in tlie United States, urged the voluntary abolition of the twelvehour day iu connection with the steci industry. He explained there wa* no intention on tho part of the Government to interfere with business hut he claimed that a great industrial revira l was impending and th© one hope of abolishing the excessively long working day was to do it before the industry resumed in frill swing He said unless abolition were unanimous it would not b© practicableThe chairman of the Board of Directors of the United States Steel Corporation. Mr E. H. Gary, recently informed th© President that practically twenty-six per cent of the steel employees worked twelve hours a day.