Dreaming of the Forty-Hour Week.

The article presents information on Malaysia. In Malaysia, there is a remarkable man who has reached the elusive goal of medieval alchemists - the transmutation of metal. He is the country's Registrar of Trade Unions, and a few years ago, when the Malaysian Metalworkers Union came politely to him to explain that hundreds of workers at the famous Selangor and Penang pewter plants wished to join the union, the registrar announced that pewter was not a metal. In light of this remarkable scientific declaration, the pewter workers could not logically join a metalworkers union.