CORRESPONDENCE.
TO COKEESPONBEIfTS. EETt"R"SED UNABLE.—State a specific case __d we will have it inquired into. GRADING OF PAINTERS. fTo the Editor) Sir. —Will you allow mc to contradict ihe statement of the president of the Master Painters' Association that the grading system has always proved a success: Prom his standpoint no doubt it. has, but my own experier -c, with dozens of others in Sydney, has Wen that the low-paid tradesm.iu was always Taken on in dull times in preference to tne higher paid man. I found it the same during IS years' experience in South Africa. I should like to know where the president gained bis know-, ledge of the benefits of the system. Wellington painters may accept with seeming good grace wh.it they had not The power to refuse, but will find from "bitter experience in slack times what it will mean for the skilled worker. "Now is the time for the painters to take a definite stand against a system they , have always fought against, and not to take a decision forced upon them by the persistent attitude ot a section oi the master paintvrs.—l am. etc.. C. IT. fURSER. I
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 201, 25 August 1919, Page 10
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