The President recently stated that "we must work longer hours." Secretary Knox recently advocated longer We hours: The government has suspended the B-hour day at the new Caribbean naval bases. General Fleming. the wage-hour administrator, has come out against double-pay for Saturdays and Sundays merely because they are Saturday and Sunday. The building trádes have long required such pay. and it is also a requirement of the C. I. O-U. A. W. in the automobile industry and has been carried into the organized ait plants.
To meet these difficulties the Labour Division. of the OPIN, under Mr. Hill-far less than the 60,000 to 65.000 barrels daily normally received from that source. Supplies from Iran also zre being used to fuel the British Navy and for other military operations in Afric and the Near East.
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