The Archive · 1938

Forty-hour Week Hard To Maintain in France

St. Brieuc, June 14.

The forty-hour week will be hard to maintain in France if the majority of countries reject the international convention now proposed in Geneva, M. Leon Jouhaux, Secretary-General of the Confederation of Trade Unions, declared today in a speech before a congress of railway workers of this region.—Havas, New U.S. Shipping Line for Orient Seattle, June 14.

A committee of the Chamber of Commerce here' announced today th formation of a company to protect and develop the American flag shipping service from Puget Sound to the Orient to replace the American Mail Line. The new firm was named the Pacific North-west - Oriental Line.—United Pres%

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