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Bootmaking Notes

. ! Hy J. HUTCHISON j ' (Secretary, N.Z. l-ederatcil Boot Trade j Association of Workers). j The annual conference of Dominion | s ! Bootmakers is to open on 27th Docem! her in Wellington. Kcinits ai'o to be k considered from all centres, ono from j Wellington asking that, having ibc J I fraudulent disclosures of military cove j tractors in view, the Government , Ijo I =; uracil to start State factories for the i I supply of military supplies. s | * * a-. % Tho shoe workers in England are ro'! ported by tho latest English files to __, bo on tho eve of striking against- the j ": provisions of i'art LI. of tlio National! ilnsurauco Act. They arc demanding, 1 ' exemption from the Act, and Labour J I members say '.that' whe-u the Bill was j 0 being hurried through Parliament they j ' thought hoot workers were exempt. j •Mi September HO notices wove handed i ' i in Id .toasts work in consequence of tho I ! deductions made l>y tho employers for; j iincmnlovmcnb insurance. James j I Gribhle, at Northampton, speaking' ■condemnation of tlie Act, cited various! ''anomalies, one being that a man in j j ' the rough stuff department cutting leather stiffeners in the morning was, in the' Act, but if ho cut atiffeners ' [ from cardboard in the afternoon he j was out of it! May their demand be i " successful. j )» :!". iV. sfi ' 1 111 the Government Gazette of thoj 9th inst., a startling revelation is dis-i , closed, it states that the leather firm of Johi Edward Butler, Ltd., has: , admitted committing evasion of tho: . Customs, and tho Customs Deportment j r has mulcted tho firm in a sum of j £4000. No publicity was given to fho case, tho public is unaware of (be; nature of tho offoneo, and when Parj liament assembles it should be probed j right, to tho bottom by tho Labour j Ms.P. • i

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