3 FEBRUARY 1933, Page 3

The Forty-hour Week

In commenting in these columns last week on the Forty-hour Week Conference, it was stated, on the authority of The Times, that the British delegate had declared categorically against the institution of a Forty-hour Week. The Minister of Labour has since written to The Times pointing out that this was not so, and that the policy of the British Government is, in fact, to explore the situation further but not to conclude a convention at the present juncture. For that policy there is, as we observed, everything to be said, and it is satisfactory to know that the British Government is after

all in favour of it. * * • *