MORE REPLIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 16, 20 January 1933, Page 9

MORE REPLIES.

IJTDTTSTBIAIi AGREEMENTS. "Mr. S. E. Wright, secretary of the Employers' Association, in his hid to gain public sympathy, states that I would not agree to equal rationing 01 work. This is news to me," states Miss Cossey, secretary of the Clothing Trades Union. "How Mr. Wright could make such a statement is beyond my knowledge as my union's reply to his request concerning equal rationing of work was only posted to him on January 19. In mv opinion Mr. Wright has drawn a red herring across the path. At conciliation council the onfe point that impressed me was the desire of his assessors, who have not yet signed the agreements, to employ unlimited child labour to the detriment of the journeywomen, many u whom are only casually employed.'

Mr* J. Claik, secretary of the Plumbers' Union, states: "With reference to Mr. Wright's imputation that the Plumbers' Union has made a farcical agreement with free lance plumbers, it is interesting to learn that his alleged genuine employers are securing little or no work, and it is therefore obvious that the public are grasping the present economic position by having their plumbing done at reasonable rates and eliminating tho exorbitant overhead charges of the past. Evidently the second rbund in the plumbers' dispute is riot so palatable to Mr. Wright as tho first round."