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Show : Why a Shorter Work Week From the Herald's Washington bureau comes this in-... in-... tenselv interesting statement: "Thus far there has been an almost unanimous dispo-1 sition on the part of industries filing codes to demand a 40-hour week. . "No one realizes better than the administration s much-publicized much-publicized 'brain trust" that the working week must be shortened more than this if the vast army of unemployed is to be absorbed and recovery made .permanent. 'It took years of bitter and even bloody struggle to get us to the'l918 48-hours agreement. "Charts mathematically indisputable have been prepared pre-pared that show in 1929, at the crest of our false wealth, there was only enuogh purchasing power to insure general employment for a 34-hour week. "The keenest analyzers foresee that if 40 hours is the best obtainable now there will be a temporary upturn, but the same undodgeable situation will still be there. "They predict another slump within two years and the same old fight all over again. That tells the story. It explains why Roosevelt is so anxious to get industry to adopt the shorter working week. He knows the danger of uermittinq- another depression to occur in this country. Have industry and business the in- telh'gence to face the facts? |