WOOL INDUSTRY
SAFEGUARDING INQUIRY. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association —United Service.) Received February 27, 2.10 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 27. The wool safeguarding inquiry dealt to-day with the extent low wages and long hours on the Continent, count in tho competition which the British manufacturers have to meet. Mr Henry Spencer, chairman of the Shipley district employment committee, in giving evidence, stated that wages in Poland were from 30 to 40 per cent of the British, in Italy and Czecho-Slovakia 40 to 45 per cent, in Belgium 50, in France and Germany 57 in Holland 75. Regarding Germany, Mr Spencer produced statistics showing that among 36,519 textile workers 36.3 worked from 42 to 54 hours per week. A substantial proportion in Wales actually worked more than 56 hours. Of 15,107 skilled male workers, 42 per cent averaged from 52 to 54 hours, and of 15,227 skilled female workers twothirds averaged from 48 to 54 hours.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 78, 1 March 1929, Page 2
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