Stagger Week Must Come

The recent Sunday strike of the Municipal Milk Workers should be sufficiently indicative of the futility of our ways.

There is not the slightest reason to reproach the workers for their action, which is only in accord with the other industrial upsets of the present time.

It should now be clear to all that the only solution lies in the introduction of a stagger week to surplant the existing weekend. Present conditions are sufficient reason for an immediate change; but we must look to the future, and in doing so it is obvious that the present arrangement for the division of work (and leisure) can only become increasingly unwieldy. The machine of modern living must be driven whether for work or on excursion, and it is apparent that the week end only impedes our progressing to a better way of living.

With reduced working hours caught up in the evolution of social progress, increasingly our adjustments are made to release more weekend workers, when it must be realised that the zenith of such a movement can only be regarded as a step backwards.

We want milk just as much on Sunday as we do any day during the week.

And so it is with all activities derivative of food, transport and entertainment, which, besides trams and eating houses and pictures embraces such not quite so imperative services as newspapers and broadcasting.

Perhaps your legal advice may be able to wait till Monday, so too your new pair of shoes, but there are many other things that cannot. We continue living in this inconvenience of our own making because the problem is not widely enough thought about and though many would be spontaneously agreeable it yet remains to be generally ventilated.