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LABOUR WILLING TO WORK 24-HOUR SHIFTS NEW YORK STATE (Rec. 5.5 p mJ New York. Dec. IP. The Governor of New York State Mr. H. H. Lehman, disclosed to-night, that Legislative and labour leaders here agreed to waive certain legal provisions, thus enabling the New York State defence plants to work seven days a week with twenty-four-hour shifts. (Recd. 11.30.) Washington, Dec. 20. Representative Howard Smith, in the House of Representatives to-day, said that President Roosevelt's industrial conference has deadlocked because Labour insists it will not have peace unless the “closed shop" clause is granted.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 301, 22 December 1941, Page 6
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