Can We Afford a Four-Day Week?

Last April Walter Reuther, head of the United Automobile Workers, announced that the major goal of his union in 1958 would be a shorter work week with increased take-home pay. He strongly hinted that he would demand a four-day week.

Labor itself has shown no enthusiasm for this goal. In a Gallup poll, most manufacturing workers rejected the shorter-week proposal. Women turned it down three to one.

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Henry Hazlitt

Last April Walter Reuther, head of the United Automobile Workers, announced that the major goal of his union in 1958 would be a shorter work week with increased take-home pay. He strongly hinted that he would demand a four-day week.

Labor itself has shown no enthusiasm for this goal. In a Gallup poll, most manufacturing workers rejected the shorter-week proposal. Women turned it down three to one.