THE BOOT TRADE DISPUTE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13740, 23 May 1910, Page 8

THE BOOT TRADE DISPUTE.

THE EMPLOYEES' VIEW

Mr J. A. Frostick, of the firm nf Skelton, Frostick and Co., when seen in regard to the dispute in the boottrade relating to the payment of femalo employees for holidays, stated the employers' view, of the case. He said that there had been no agreoment in regard to paying? the girls affected by the dispute for holidays. Hie agreement was to pay for holidays only in the factory. The girls concerned could leave on twenty-four hours' notice or bo dismissed on that notice. The award given in respect to Messrs Hannah and Co.'s case ma.de it clear that if girls were not properly apprenticed they became "casual hands." That was the exact term used by the Court. In clause 14, which dealt with female employees, three classes of eineinployees were defined. There were indentured apprentices. unindenture<l apprentices, who agreed to serve for five years, and "casual hands " who could givo twenty-four hours' notice or receive it. The third class were the girls affected, and there certainly had been iu> agreement at any time to yay them for holidays.