THE NOME NUGGET
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HARDLY IDEAL WORKING CONPiTiC
THE FOUR-DAY WORK WEEK
You are going to hear a great deal about the four
day work week. It is a major goal of many big unions.
Walter Reuther will seek a shortened week—without
pay cuts—when the United Auto Workers and the
motor makers enter into contract negotiations next
year. Vice President Nixon thinks the four-day week
will be commonplace in the not too distant future.
This is a highly controversial matter. The labor
leaders say increased worker productivity, resulting
from automation and other causes, makes the short
week logical and inevitable. Industry leaders, for the
most part, deny this, and are convinced the result
would be more inflation at an extraordinary heavy
cost to the country.
There is one other extremely interesting aspect
to the matter. It is discussed in a recent article in
Parade magazine. The title: “Do You Really Want a
Pour-Day Week?”
On first glance, that may seem a foolish question |
to many. They’ll reason that the answer of America’s
workers can’t help but be an enthusiastic “Yes!” How
ever, as the article shows, it isn’t that simple and clear
out by any means.
First of all, it quotes surveys by the Trendex News
Poll and Dr. Gallup’s American Institute of Public
Opinion, which indicate that a majority of Americans
don’t want the short week, the Gallup poll, for instance,
Showed 54 percent of men are against it—and 67 per
cent of women. The Trendex poll came up with the
news that most people prefer more income to more
Uesure. 'In this connection!, a machinist told the poll
taker: “With a four-day week, I’d have another day at
home with nothing to do.”
The article quotes a psychiatrist as predicting that
the short week would produce more broken homes:
“Husband and wife are thrown together just two days
a week; they can stand that. Put the extra day might
be enough to push them over the brink.” Another
psychiatrist thinks the short week might result in a
# better family relationship, yet warns that “with three
days of leisure, Americans might face many, many
more temptations.”
Time will tell what is to happen. One thing is
sure—the four-day week is going to be a subject of
hot debate fbr a long time to come. I
College Officials
In Dither Over
Rabid Puppy
LAKELAND, Fla., (jP)—Seven
persons are known to have been
bitten by a puppy found to have
rabies after it had been cuddled
and petted by scores of Florida
Southern College coeds.
The death of the dog and deter
mination it was rabid touched off
a series of telephone calls by col
lege officials to points thruout the
country to warn 82 girls known
to have been in contact with the
dog.
Letters are going out to tell the
entire student body of 2,000 about
the situation, since others may
have been exposed to the animal.
A college spokesman said the
puppy was smuggled against the
school rules into the Alpha Omi
cron Pi sorority house, where it
became a sort of mascot. The
house mother suspected its pres
ence but never was able to find it,
or to learn who brought it in.
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