INTER-STATE WORKERS TO ASK FOR SHORTER WEEK.
MELBOURNE, June 1. An Inter-State Conference of Trades Hall delegates framed comprehensive proposals for the establishment of the forty-four hour week throughout Australia. Victorian unions have been directed to make immediate demands to employers for a forty-four hours’ week and there will be a general agitation throughout the Commonwealth by lunch-hour meetings. It is also proposed that the building trades, at present enjoying a fortyfour hours’ week, be instructed to ask for forty hours.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17862, 2 June 1926, Page 15
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