THE BOOT TRADE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 823, 23 May 1910, Page 5

THE BOOT TRADE.

PAYMENT FOR HOLIDAYS. (By Telezraph.—Press Association.) Christchurch, May 22. Trouble in tho boot trade is said t< be threatened owing to the action o manufacturers bore in havmg issue< the following notice to their girl ap prentices last Wednesday ; "We regret that it will be necessary to dispense with your services as from to-morrow evening. Wages duo up to that-time will be paid as you leave t-lto factory. Thd manager will bo in attendance at the warehouse at 8 a.m. on Monday next for, the purpose of considering applications for omployment, and should you desire to make further application it will be favourably considered." Mr. J. A. Frostick states that th award in Hannah and C-o.'s case mad it clear that if girls aro not proporl, apprenticed they became "casua hands," which was the exact ten used in tho award. There h;id been 11 agreement at any time to pay girl taken on as casual hands for holidays. Mr. G. E. Wliiting, secretary of tb Federated Bootmakers' Union, contend that, according to the short-band not of the proceedings at tho conference <i representatives of the employers an employees, it is clear that all girl aro apprentices, whether indentured o not, and tho employers' agreement to pay girl apprentices for holidays covers all girls employed at- tho trade.