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...Break up the family!" was one of Russia's bywords when she went on the Five-Day Week (TIME, Oct. 7,1929). Factories began to run every day of the week with four-fifths of their personnel, the other one-fifth resting. Thus each man or woman has, under the present Five-Day week, one day of rest after each four of work; but the "rest day" of husband and wife may not be the same, thus tending to disrupt the family...
...Stalin, happy family man, now said that factories in which the Five-Day Week does not seem to work well should return to the old system of five days' work and the same rest day for everyone at once...
...prominent man; if the girl's name were Sadie Schmitz and she lived, say, on West 17th Street, New York; if such a case occurred in cool weather with an abundance of other news breaking concurrently?how would the newspapers treat it? Probable answer: as a good local five-day sex mystery, to be slipped off the front pages of conservative papers if no solution was forthcoming...
...Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. reported it was on a five-day basis, employing as many workers as possible. C. H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Co. (automobiles) closed for two weeks. C. A strike of 2,700 members of International Pocketbook Workers' Union resulted when employers tried to cut wages...
...Bedford plant of Fisk Rubber Co. went from a five-day week...