SLACK TIMES
IN THE FURNITURE TRADE.
Conditions are tad in'the cabinet-mak-ing trade in Wellington at the present time, according to evidence given in the Magistrate's Court this morning. A man with four young children was being sued for possession of a house, and against whom thci Magistrate subsequently made, an order, on the ground that ho had been offered a rented house, stated that most of the cabinet-making firms in Wellington were now putting men off owing to slackness of trade. "The firm for which I had been working put off five men a .week ago," he said, "and I was one of them." The defendant stated that he had approached the secretary of the Furniture Trades' Union in search of a job, and was informed that there woro' now 18 men on the union's hooks. The secretary also snid that things in the trade were worse in Wellington to-day than they had been for a number of years;
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 28, 2 August 1921, Page 7
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159SLACK TIMES Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 28, 2 August 1921, Page 7
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