MORE WORK FOR SAME PAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14566, 31 December 1910, Page 8

MORE WORK FOR SAME PAY.

THE BOOT WORKERS' COMPLAINTS, • ' ~ [by TELEGRAPH. — ASSOCIATION.] Dcnedin, Friday. Vj At the conference of Federated Boot* % makers* Unions to-day, delegate after de* ; ; legate quoted cases of the employers fore*' ft ';{ ing the workers' to do more work with- -"} out a corresponding increase in remunora* ' . *£< tion. -'y Instances were given and statements pro* | dnced showing that the system of a co» /M opeiative boot factory worked in England with satisfactory results both to the" em- : ployer and employee. At the present time although the employee worked on weekly wages the employers fixed the ■ prices paid for the operation they were f '. : engaged upon, so that the wages osald;"-J}.-be computed, and that being so, the cm- , ployers claimed a voice in saying what rate should be paid for the purpose of - \ computing their weekly wage. It was , || contende<l that the practice of "speeding- j;g ■ up'.' was increasing, and the conference' ; -l was of opinion that something must be • 5 done to protect employee.';:. Considerably . ?Jj. feeling was shown over the matter. ' ;