FORTY-HOUR WEEK DROPPED IN U.S.A.
(Recd. 11.5 p.m.) New York, March 18 A Washington message states that legislation was introduced to Congress to suspend all laws and contracts providing for a 40-hour week for the duration, and also abolishing the closed union shop and limiting industrial profits on large defence orders to 6 per cent.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 66, 19 March 1942, Page 5
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