FURNITURE TRADE DISPUTE.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
Wellington, this day. At the Conciliation Board Mr Mumme, secretary of the Furniture Trade Union, contended that the log for piece work in the furniture trade could not be satisfactory. The Board pointed out that in all other trades it was possible to ascertain the cost of preparing an article, and this being ascertainable, he thought it must be possible to prepare a log accordingly. The Chairman (Mr W. li. Quick) said that in Dunedin the masters and men had agreed to put all articles, the cost of producing which was easily determinable, into a lo<% while in other cases the men and their employers met in conference to fix prices as occasion required. Mr Robinson (President of the Union) asserted that this would never work fairly from the men's point of view here. Mr Mumme condemned piece work as more of a sweating system than anything else." " "
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 208, 7 September 1897, Page 2
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