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...Russia, which switched two years ago from the seven to the five-day week, switched last week...
Ruefully Soviet leaders admitted last week that the "staggered" five-day weeks proved a brake on production instead of a spur. The idea was that machines would run every day, tended by four-fifths of the workers. Each day one-fifth of the proletariat would rest, next day another fifth, and so on, but machines never...
...five days last week, William Green's convention recessed. Pending for consideration this week was the program drawn up by the Executive Council, proposing: i) legalization of 2.75% beer; 2) a national conference of employers and laborers to be called by President Hoover; 3) immediate inauguration of the five-day week; 4) prohibition of all child labor...
Companies in other industries jumped to take advantage of Steel's movement. General Motors Corp. knocked 10%-20% off the salaries of its 25,000 white-collar men. United States Rubber adopted a five-day week as its normal schedule -first step of its kind to be taken by a big U. S. corporation. U. S. Rubber salaries were reduced 1/11 in adjustment to the new schedule. Aluminum Co. of America, controlled by the Mellons, announced a 10% wage...
...silk strikers demanded: eight-hour day, five-day week, 40% wage increase. They complained that they were now worked 9½ to 14 hrs. per day for a wage that began at $12 per week. Most of the operators of Paterson's silk mills, large & small, almost welcomed the strike as an excuse to shut down their plants...