The Archive · 1929

Soviet Meddling with the Week

Thirty-Day Month, Five Annual National Holidays Moscow, Sept. 28.

'The Academy of Science here has approved of the Soviet project to reform the calendar so as to provide for a 5-day week in accordance with the industrial reform decreed by the Council of the Peoples' Commis-

'There is to be a continuous -working week of five days, but workers may take a day of rest in turn after} every four days' work. The number of months in the year will be unchanged but each month will be ided into six weeks. The five! non-working days in the year which are to be devoted to revolutionary holidays will not be counted in

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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