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Show Less Hours of Work. In the battle against unemployment unemploy-ment the hours of work in industry generally have been shortened but there are indications that another reduction will have to be made if the mere than 10,000,000 unemployed unemploy-ed are tT be put to work. "Eventualiy the whole country has got to go cn a shorter work week," recently said General Johnson, John-son, NRA Administrator. "Ycu can't make it a uniform week by fiat without with-out raising Cain. And whatever is done, our studies show, it's got to be in multiples of eight." While no definite proposal has teen made yet the probability is that a four-day week, each day of eight work hours, may be attempted. NRA officials estimate that the forty-hour week provided in ni'st the industrial codes made jobs for 1,500,000 people. A reduction of working time to thirty-two hours each week should add at least another an-other million and a half to the list of employed. It shold be borne in mind, however, how-ever, that although nearly eleven elev-en million have registered as unemployed un-employed in this country, this list represents many duplications of actual ac-tual need. In many cases the husband hus-band and wife both list themselves for work when a job to either one would be sufficient. In many other cases not on'y the parents, but o-tlier o-tlier members of the families, p-it their names on the list for work. |