PRODUCTION CONTROL
AMERICAN MEASURE. THE FIVE-DAY WEEK PROPOSAL. AMENDMENTS SUGGESTED. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. WASHINGTON, April 18. Unprecedented Federal control of production by industry would be permissible under amendments to the Five Day Week Bill proposed to the House of Representatives Labour Committee by Miss Frances Perkins, Secretary for Labour. Besides production control Miss Perkins also suggested the inclusion of a minimum wage provision. The members of the committee said production control, which was suggested as a means of equalising the hours of industry, would prevent any one concern obtaining a virtual monopoly. Any plant, under the general terms of the five-day week bill, it was pointed out, could be run for 24 hours per day by employing four six hour shifts, while another plant less fortunately situated as to available workers might have to> reduce production as well as 'hours of labour. The amendment suggested by Miss Perkins would let a new federal hoard decide how many hours per week each manufacturer was entitled equitably to operate his plant.
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Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18925, 20 April 1933, Page 3
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172PRODUCTION CONTROL Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18925, 20 April 1933, Page 3
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