WORK "GIVEN OUT."

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18673, 23 April 1926, Page 11

WORK "GIVEN OUT."

FACTORY EMPLOYEES OBJECT. (special TO "th* pbiss") DUXEDIX, April 22. Evidently there are still many poor women who have to sing the Song of the Shirt, and it is not music to tailorasses, shirtmakers, and other female clothing operatives, who are employed in regular factories. Miss J. Runcimau, secretary of the Dunedin Tailoresses' Union, mentioned, during a dispute heard at a sitting of the Conciliation Council, what she described as tho "giving out" practice of certain firms. She objected to it, not only because it diverted work from operatives in factories, but also because some of the homes into which the work was sent might be insanitary. -Mr Cookson, for the employers, said that though the practice might be in vegue, he was not aware of it, and he objected to it as strongly as did Miss Runciman. The subject was not pressed, and it is likely that the widows and others who are supporting themselves in this way will continue to do -io. It was mentioned by Miss Runciman that the homes v.here such work was done were supposed to be registered under the Factories Act, but as it was only when the occupiers reported themselves that the supervision consequent on registration could be exercised., the firms who employed them, and the women who did the work, would probably continu? on their own terms.