Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Hours, Fatigue, and Health in British Munition Factories
In the present bulletin the memoranda relating to hours of labor and industrial fatigue are reproduced in full, preceded by a sum mary of the more important suggestions and recommendations of the committee.
There has been added also the report of the Treasury agreement of March 17, 18, and 19, 1915, between representatives of the British Government and representatives of the trade-unions, in which it was agreed in behalf of the trade-unions that all trade-union or shop rules and customs tending to restrict production or to limit the employment of semiskilled or female labor should be suspended for the period of the war, the Government on its part agreeing to re quire all contractors and subcontractors on munitions or other war work to bind themselves to restore such trade-union rules and cus toms after the war. It was further agreed that machinery should be provided for the prompt settlement of all labor disputes and that no dispute should be allowed to result in a suspension of work.
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