SWEATED LABOUR CHARGE
EMPLOYERS’ ADVOCATE REPLIES ONLY TWO FIRMS INVOLVED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) , WELLINGTON, April 27. Following the allegations by Mr A. Black, secretary of the Wellington Iron and Brass Moulders’ Union,. during conciliation proceedings to-day of sweated labour conditions in the engineering Mr T. O. Bishop, employers’ advocate, said he thought it was a matters for congratulation that Mr Black could find only two firms in the Wellington industrial district which were not “playing the game” in the absence of an award. “We have done our utmost since the award was cancelled to see that firms did not go below the wage rates that were set out or alter the conditions affecting; the trade,” he said, “and we are pleased to know our efforts have been successful to the extent that there are only two-firms which are cutting wages.”
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 28 April 1934, Page 5
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140SWEATED LABOUR CHARGE Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 28 April 1934, Page 5
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