SKILLED LABOUR.
SOUTH ISLAND POSITION. MOTOR BODY INDUSTRY. (My Telpsraph—Own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, this day. "After making a tour of the South Island in the interest* of the motor body industry I find that employers are experiencing the ■ name difficulties as those in the North Island; there is a great shortage of skilled labour," said Mr. John E. Hunt, of Wellington, president of the Coach and Motor Body Builders' Federation of Employers. "The shortage is so acute that employers »re carefully considering making an application to the Court of Arbitration to have tho working hours increased to 44 a week."
.\Jr. Hunt Mid he had also found that employ ere in the South were strongly opposed to the proposal of the workers' union to reduce the number of apprentices to men. Employers were sympathetic to the ideals of the Government in training youths in industry, but they thought that the ratio should be one hoy to one tradesman until the present depleted ranks of skilled tradesmen were brought up to the requisite number.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 165, 15 July 1939, Page 11
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