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The Bismarck Tribune
Bismarck, Mandan, Burleigh County, Morton County, North Dakota
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On Dec. 1, Russia will revert to a six-day work week with national rest days every sixth day of the month, abandoning the continuous five-day system. Daily hours reduced from 7 to 6, following Stalin's critique of inefficiencies.
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System of Nation-Wide Day of Rest
Moscow, Nov. 24.-(P)-Russia prepared Tuesday to return to a national day of rest on Dec. 1, by authority of the council of the people's commissars.
The holiday "stagger system under which industry kept going continuously, Sunday, Monday and every other day. while the "day off" for the workers varied with the individual's preferences or the arrangements among trades, is to be abandoned.
Except for co-operative stores, dining halls, transportation and other agencies serving the cultural and living needs of the people, the holiday for everyone will fall every sixth day.
It will not fall on a fixed day of the week, however, and Sunday will be recognized no more than under the present regime.
The sixth, twelfth, eighteenth, twenty-fourth and thirtieth days of the month will be the holidays. Working hours will be reduced, at the same time, from 7 to 6 hours a day.
A gradual change to the longer and uninterrupted week has been in progress in various sections of the country. particularly in the large industrial centers, since Joseph Stalin's speech last June in which he said a number of faults had been found in the five-day. uninterrupted week.
Breakdowns of machinery were frequent because of inexperienced relief shifts supplanting regular workers. there was little time to repair machines and responsible authority was improperly distributed on regular officials' days off.
The action was regarded here as the most important since the introduction of the piecework system of wages.
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Russia
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Dec. 1
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abandonment of the five-day continuous work week; introduction of a six-day week with holidays on the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th, and 30th of each month; reduction of daily working hours from 7 to 6.
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Russia is set to return to a national day of rest system on Dec. 1, as authorized by the council of the people's commissars. The previous staggered system, where workers had varying days off and industry operated continuously, will be abandoned. Holidays will occur every sixth day, not on a fixed weekday, with exceptions for essential services. This change follows a gradual shift in industrial centers since Stalin's June speech criticizing the five-day week due to machinery breakdowns and other issues.