would you give up a job with a three‐day week?

ONE THIRD OF OUR COMMERCIAL THEATRES CLOSED SINCE THE war. Only one teenager in 25 a member of a youth club. £600 million a year spent in Britain on off‐course betting. Fourteen million members of Bingo clubs. So — what has all this to do with industry? 15 000 out of a labour force of 21 000 displaced by mechanised, automated equipment. A working force of 22 000 packing workers reduced to 9 000 by the same means. Ah, but that was in the USA! Well what about 30 000 New York electrical workers on a 25 hour week? Well that is America too! And how about the shortest working week yet negotiated in Europe? Ah well, Europe — a bit nearer home maybe. Yes, but this was in Leigh, Lancs, and they negotiated a three‐day week in a textile mill!