Thirty-five hour week

Date: 1972

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-134-306

Description: This cartoon features a possible scenario if the the British T.U.C. campaign to reduce unemployment as reported in the newspaper cutting attached to the cartoon, is adpoted. Three scenes feature a stopwork meeting. In the first one worker is telling the others that the employers have agreed to a 35 hour week. In the second scene the workers are shouting back at the speaker and in the final secne the speaker is expalining to management that ' It's a protest stopwork - the shorter week means if we have a day's stopwork we get less time off'. Extended Title - It may solve the unemployment problem, but -. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone, newspaper clipping and crayon, 316 x 396 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1977

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-135-128

Description: This cartoon is set in a car assembly plant. Workers (some Polynesian) are filing into a room for staff retraining as there isn't enough work for them in their regular jobs because of the downturn in the car assembly industry. On offer are planning for retirement and basket weaving Extended Title - In view of the latest government refusal to take steps to stimulate our industry, this week's lectures will be on: - planning for retirement and basket weaving Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 320 x 450 mm

Date: 1977

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-135-156

Description: This cartoon relates to the economic downturn and the possibility of a four day working week and features a scene outside a factory as the workers are going home. A worker is picketing with a sign objecting to the four-day week Extended Title - Down with doin 4 days work a week Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 320 x 440 mm