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It Seems to Heywood Broun
Broun, Heywood | May 7, 1930 issue

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Employers in publishing and the printing industry are demanding for the five-day week. This would include the provision for the six-day wage scale to be paid for the shorter period, so in a sense it does represent a request for higher pay. It is quite true that the new arrangement would add something like 15 per cent to the costs which the publishers would have to shoulder. If the issue is not drawn now it must be soon, because the printers are increasingly being forced into a position where they must fight for existence. What was one of the strongest unions in the country now finds a vast number of its members out of work. They are the victims of efficiency.

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PUBLISHERS & publishing; PRINTING industry; INDUSTRIAL relations; LABOR unions; ARBITRATION, Industrial; INDUSTRIAL sociology
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