Word: six-hour
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...favor shorter working hours, nor for politicians to favor shorter working hours for their constituents. Not so great news is it as formerly for manufacturers to favor shorter working hours. Nonetheless it was a shock to many a businessman to learn last week that Gerard Swope, president of General Electric, appearing before a committee of Congress favored if not a 30-hour week at least the next thing to it. A bill before Congress (TIME, Jan. 23) would prohibit the shipment in interstate commerce of goods manufactured in any plant where workers labored more than five six-hour days...
...average burdened pre-medical student; or they have bowed to the University law which permits no course to have more than six hours of laboratory travail per week, placing this maximum figure in the catalogue, when in actual practice it is the minimum for a genius. This six-hour law was enacted lest a course require more of a student than should be credited to a single course...
...week the five-day week movement bounded far out in front of the slow-moving industrial procession when the Senate unexpectedly passed (53-to-30) a bill that would clamp down upon U. S. manufacturers and producers not only the five-day week but also the far more radical six-hour day. As an emergency measure to combat unemployment the proposed law would be effective for only two years. Its author was smart little Hugo Black of Alabama, lawyer, War veteran, economic idealist. Senator Black & friends predicted his bill would supply 6,000,000 men with work, on the theory...
...Received from the Interstate Commerce Commission a report stating that a six-hour day (instead of an eight-hour day) for railway labor would have no physical effect on operation or service by the carriers; but, without a corresponding cut in pay, would increase their operating costs $414,000,000 per year as of 1932. A six-hour day under normal conditions would make 300,000 to 350,000 new railway jobs...
Subjects already worn thin from talk were talked over again at length last week by the executive council of the American Federation of Labor before it closed its fortnight's session at Atlantic City. Rehashed were the six-hour day, the five-day week, more jobs to be made by Congress, the Government's payless furlough plan. The council flayed both Republican and Democratic platforms for being "vague and extremely disappointing" to Labor but, always nonpartisan, endorsed no nominee for the Presidency...