BASKET-MAKING.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 174, 25 July 1928, Page 12

BASKET-MAKING.

..*iS>SION SCHOOL'S PRODUCTS. QUESTION OF OBSERVING AWARD (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. An unusual situation was disclosed a. a conciliation council, when the Fede rated Trades Industrial Union o Workers asked the commissioner to dea with the position between the Wickc Workers' Union and the New Zealan Missionary School at Longburn. It was stated for the union that th conditions under which the work t>. basket-making were carried on at th school enabled lower prices to b charged than was possible in t,ne cast of members of the union working unde the conditions and wages of the award The principal of the school, Mi Rosendahl, said that so far as th award was concerned its conditions am. wages were strictly complied with, an< while it might happen ~i certain line of work that the prices charged wer. lower than those usually obtained b\ other manufacturers, v there wen other lines in which the school could not in the matter of prices compet With those of other manufacturers. Ih" school would continue to observe ui ccMl'tions of the award, and In wol'l.l be quite pleased to meet representative? of the other manufacturers and come to some arrangement and terms concerning the marketing of their product. It was decided to arrange such a meeting, and the indications are tha a complete agreement will be reached