TAILORS' DISPUTE "CHART ORDERS."

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1914, Page 2

TAILORS' DISPUTE "CHART ORDERS."

AGREEMENT ARRIVED AT. UY tCfctonAPH. -entss association.; AUCKLAND, 30th March. To-day the Arbitration Court disposed of tho tailors' dispute, an industrial disagreement on which many conciliatory conferences had foiled to make any appreciable effect. An agreement had been como to between "the clothing manufacturers and tho master tailors relating to chart orders as follows :— "All bespoke work shall be done in the registered workroom of the employer for whom tho work is performed, and by whom the order is taken, nnd shall be paid for according to the time statement fixed, unless pertormed by an operative employed at weekly wages. Iho expression "bespoke work' is to include all garments for which orders or measures, are taken, also all goods made and sold as tailor-made, and all orders in which any garment is fitted on, whether the order be by chart measurement or otherwise. All work is to bo done in tho workshop «r premises of tho employer, and 110 work shall be dono in any premises occupied by an operative except by consent of a" joint committee set up as provided for in the agreement." j Tho abovo conditions do not apply to bona-fldo chart orders or contract work manufactured in wholesale for a bonalido town or country agent who at time of booking order directs the attention of purchaser to the fact that the garments purchased are chart-order and factorymade goods. _ Further, that ho does not advertise or imply in any way he is taking orders for tailor-made garments!. Chart orders mean gawneiits for which an order is taken by a draper or outfitter and made in a factory without a try-on of any sort by the draper or out' fitter, either on his own premises or elsewhere during the process of maiiii' facture._ Contract work relates only to territorial, railway, or letter-carriers' uniforms. Nothing in the agreement is held to prevent an alteration toeing made to any garment after completion, whether made by chart measure or otherwise. The Court accepted tho agreement, and factory owners withdrew their coun- , ter proposals.