WORK AND WAGES.
THE LABOR MARKET. [Pee United Press Association.] CHR.ISTCHURCH, October 27. Unemployed workmen are still being drafted to the Domet railway works and to the Midland Railway. Employers" are complaining of the great difficulty in securing female workers for shirt and other clothing factories, and the Labor Department officials say that there hj a decided scarcity of labor in these industries. COOPERS' WAGES. AUCKLAND, October 27. The Arbitration Court have fixed the wages of coopers at the rate, offered by the employers—viz., £2 15s per week, being an increase of 3s per week—and a reduction of one hour in the week's work. The Otago Grocers' Assistants' Union are framing demands for increase in wages and limitation of hours.
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Evening Star, Issue 13092, 27 October 1908, Page 4
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120WORK AND WAGES. Evening Star, Issue 13092, 27 October 1908, Page 4
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