INDUSTRIAL CLOTHING

Grey River Argus, 24 November 1942, Page 3

INDUSTRIAL CLOTHING

CONCESSIONS TO WORKERS WELLINGTON. Nov. 23. Special concessions for the obtaining of industrial clothing are announced by the Minister of Supply (Hon D. G. Sullivan). The * Minister stated that th e list of industries to which concessions have been granted was very carefully considered before ijeing finalised though it will be reviewed from time to time and any anomalies which may become evident will be rectified and amendments or additions made to the list. Among provisions of the scheme are the following:—

SPECIAL ISSUES Issues of coupons may be made to employees engaged in industries where the wear and tear on clothing is particularly heavy. Application is to be made in each instance by the employer, on behalf of his employees, direct to the Rationing Controller. The following occupations will be given consideration in this respect*— Class A (20 coupons): Process workers engaged in manufacture of sulphuric acid. Picklers or galvanisers of iron or steel sheets and sheet metal goods. Class B- (15 coupons): Coal miners. Process workers engaged in the manufacture of nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, sodium hypochlorite, soluble alkali silicates. Workers engaged in- handling and preparing caustic soda, caustic potash, alkali chlorates, chlorine,, chlorinated lime. Class C (10 coupons): Metalliferous miners- and tunnelers, maintenance engineers, boilermaker on ship repair work, welders, blacksmiths, electric and oxy-acetylene, foundry workers (moulding labourers, forgers, furnacemen and assistants), workers engaged in' smelting and rolling iron and ■ steel, railway firemen and engineers, ship painters and dockers, workers in ammonium sulphate section of gas manufacturing plants, workers "engaged in ac’d anodising, elect: oplaters, wool and basil workers engaged in carbonising, acidising or painting, process workers in soap manufacture in sect’ons handling, preparing or breaking down caustic soda. ■ Clm's D (10 coupons): Workers engaged on approved defence and bu'ldinv construction worker, sawmilierY'and bushmen, workers in lime' and chemical fertilizer works, .shearers. .industsrial clothing. (a) Protective clothing on coupon free list, (purchasable coupon

free, without permit): Industrial aprons made of unrationed materials; clogs and special footwear supplied under awards; industrial garments made of rubber or synthetic rubber sheeting; rubber gloves; gloves of rough tanned and undyed leather; industrial gloves marked “industrial”; ‘ waterproof leggings and sou’-westers; gumboots, and goloshes. . (b) Protective and industrial garments supplied by employers under award or industrial agreements, (purchasable against official permits):— Oilskins, working boots, aprons, veils, caps, vamps. Permits may be issued by the Rationing Controller on application by the employer. Where the employer provides these; garments by established custom or for special purposes, application may be made to the- Rationing Controller for permission for such purchases to be included in the provisions of this clause (c) Special protective clothing. Protective clothing, for special purposes. supplied by the employer and remaining the property .of the employer—not including, smocks and overalls or any clothing issued to workmen and not remaining in. a “common pool-—may . be authorised for purchase in special cases. Applications for permits to be made in each case by the employer to the Rationing Controller. (d) Overalls: , Smocks, overalls, boiler suits, etc. ’supplied by the employer free of cost to the employee in the following industries may be authorised for purchase coupon-free against 1 , official permits: Abattoirs, freezing works, canister • factories, tobacco factories, approved - munition works, electric trades, wool, grain, hide and manure stores Permits may be issued by the Rationing Controller on application in each cash by the employer. In all other industries, coupons must be surrendered for the purchase of overal! (e) Other industrial clothing supplied bv the employer: Permits may be issued by Rationing Officers against coupons surrendered by the employees at thp scale rate.