HOURS IN FURNITURE TRADE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 12 July 1921, Page 7

HOURS IN FURNITURE TRADE

(United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July !>. Judgment in the application for an order amending the United Furniture Trades Award, by fixing the hours of work on a graduated scale to lessen unemployment by reducing hours, was delivered in the- Arbitration. Court hy Mr Justice Frazer. Tli© judgment stated that the appu* cation had much to commend it, but the matter could only bp arranged by individual employers with their employees. The position was complicated by the fact that the slackness of business was not experienced to the same clogroo Ivy all branches of the trade, nr\v nil firms engaged in an Jndstry. Difficulties also would arise in respect, to the transfer of city and country workers under such a system if the amendment were to apply to the whole district. The Court gave the secretary of the union every credit for the time and thought ho had given to formulation of the. scheme, lb recognised with appreciation, the spirit of soiisacriiice that, actuated members of the anion in making the application to the Court. He commended to the employers for careful -ami sympathetic conskioration the desirability of relieving the situation disclosed by the adoption of a readjustment ot hours where possible.