EMPLOYMENT AT KAIAPOI.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5557, 7 April 1905, Page 7

EMPLOYMENT AT KAIAPOI.

PRESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH. April 6. The Christchurch branch of tho Political Labour League further considered the question of importation contract labour at a meeting to-niglit. It was stated that the Kaiapoi Woollen Company, before importing labour, ascertained from the hoc rotary of the Christchurch Tailoresses’ Union that no surplus labour was available, and advertisements published in Wellington and Dunedin brought forth no response from unemployed tailoresses. Ten days after arrival of non-unionist girls from Sydney, the company discharged forty-throe coat-makers and two waistcoat-makers. Thirteen of the coat-makers were reinstated, but the balance are still out of employment. Reorganisation of the factory was alleged to have been carried out to defeat the terms of an award of the Court. , The opinion was expressed by. several speakers that it was not the intention of the League to injure the company, but only to see that justice was done to employees. It was decided to send a letter of sympathy to the Tailoresses’ Union, and to offer to set up a commit-’ tee to go into the matter with a committee from thp union and from tho Trades and Labour Council.