CONDITIONS OF FURNITURE TRADE WORKERS.
The trade depression doBB not appear to be so acute in the furniture trade as in others. .Mir. Moriarity, secretary of the Workers' Union to-day informed a Post reporter that for tho last six months only 16 men had left ths union, and some of those had started ior themselves, others had. "cleared" to other parla of the country, aud not more than aix had left it. For the period named over 50 men had joined. Trade was certainly dull, but there wore no more than two or three men out of work in oach of the branches of the furniture trade. Over 300 members were in the union. Relations between employers and employed were most satisfactory, and employ era were helping tho union by putting on more men in preference to working overtime.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 137, 11 June 1909, Page 8
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139CONDITIONS OF FURNITURE TRADE WORKERS. Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 137, 11 June 1909, Page 8
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