NEW AWARD SOUGHT
IN CLOTHING INDUSTRY. /Per Press Association.) CHRISTCII I'RUll, Augusl 22. Application by the workers for increased wages and shorter hours, was made in the clothing industry Dominion dispute, heard nt the Conciliation Council to-day. ’Pile, employees asked for a forty-hour week, and the employers forty-four. There, was considerable discussion over apprentices. The employers wished to do awav with the clause affecting contending that in the event of slackness of trade, journeymen would have to be pul off, but under tiie proposed conditions, apprentices would have to be kept on. which would be unfair. The employees contended that apprentices were entitled to some protection ami security. It was stated that the whole dispute virtually centred round the apprentice's clause, which would be discussed again this afternoon.
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Grey River Argus, 23 August 1934, Page 7
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