Poor Wages for Women

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 294, 18 October 1922, Page 2

Poor Wages for Women

At ithe Arbitration Court Inst week,. Mr.. W. Grenfell, boss representative, in. closing the employers , case in the tea-room and re&taurant workers' application, gave the following list of award wages for female employees, many of whom brave to serve .as. apprentices; for from two to live years;

Bootmakers, £2/0/-, after 5 years' apprenticeship; jlailoresses, £2/2/6, after 2 yenrs; jewellers, £2/9/-, after 4 years"; matches, £2/2/-, after 2 years';- printing, £2/13/6, after 5 years; saddlery, £2/7/6, after 5 years; shops, £2/4/-, after' 5 years; upholstering, £2/9/-. after 4 years; woollen mills. £2/2/6 after 4 years.

CAPITALISM SWEATS WOMEN IN THE FACTORY, AND SWEATS THEM IN THE HOMES OF THS WORKERS.