"MAKING"

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 49, 26 August 1921, Page 2

"MAKING"

"Making" to tho layman moans making, completing, but to those in the soft goods and clothing trades it is a technical term with quito a limited /'meaning, and therefore, as was pointed out by Mr. J. Abel, seoretary to the Wellington Soft Goods Manufacturers' Association, to a Post representative this morning, the statement made by Mr. J. T. Paul in the Arbitration Court recently that plain Fuji blouses were "made" at 8s per dozen, silk blouses at 9s per dozen, and fancy blouses at prices running up to 15s, and that pyjamas were r'niado" at 7s 6d per dozen, may bo misleading to the general public. "Making," he explained, was tin making apart from cutting out and finishing. Thus blouse making was divided among six or more workers, who would cut out, "make," finish, button-hole, hemstitch, and press the article, while shirt making was divided up among as many as eight or more workers, who would each have ono of tho several tasks of outting out, "making," scamiug,' button-holing, but-ton-sewing, finishing, folding and pressing. In some factories one worker might bo called on to. do more than one typo of work, but in large factories each type of wo'ri; was done by a separate employee. "Any good worker can 'make' eighteen to twenty blouses pei- day and so earn 13s or more," said Mr. Abel.

'Making" is not making.