MARITIME CONFERENCE
DISCUSSION OF HOURS AT GENEVA Received Oct. 18, 6.10 p.m. GENEVA, Oct. 17. The Maritime Conference Committee discussed the Swedish proposal for a 56-hour week with a maximum of 6 additional hours for deck ratings in vessels of a minimum tonnage of 2000. The French and American employers alone accepted the proposal, but the others refused to participate further when the proposal was adopted as a basis of discussion. Mr Jenkins, assistant-secretary to the British Board of Trade, said that Britain would not accept a lower tonnage than 2500, which was the demarcation between the two-watch and three-watch systems. Britain would accept 56 working hours with an additional eight. Britain was aiming at the three-watch ;ystem, this basis being for ships not exceeding 2500 tons. India, Japan and Poland generally supported Britain.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 247, 19 October 1936, Page 7
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