TAILORING TRADE.
PROTEST AGAINST OUT-WORKING SYSTEM.
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 6
A conference of representatives of all branches of the Journeymen Tailors' Federation and Clothing Trade Workers (or tailoresses) Federation adopted a proposal that all unions of employees in the tailoring and clothing trades should amalgamate. A deputation representing the clothing trade workers waited upon the Acting-Minister of Labour (Mr. Herries) to-day for the purpose of urging him to consider the evils arising out of the registration of outworkers under the Factories Act.
Hon. Paul stressed the abuses to which the present system had been put, and stated that certain definite evils which had arisen in the clothing trade system encouraged a degree cf sweating almost equal to that of the earlier days. He urged that the practice should be either prohibted or made subject to more strict regulations.
The Minister was sympathetic towards the deputation, but urged those concerned to submit him definite proposals on the lines advocated. These proposals would receive his consideration.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 7564, 7 May 1919, Page 5
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