TRADES AUD LABOUR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10423, 27 July 1895, Page 5

TRADES AUD LABOUR.

The Selection Committee of tho UdO?aployed WorktQen'B Relief Association met for three hours yeaterday, there being present—Messrs R. Chisholm (chairman), C. Haynes, A. Burfc, and T. Brown. Last week tho committee cleared all the names of! their books, and oince ,ch&ttimesomeu have handed ia applications for employment. Thirty of theEe were ye'tf.rday selected for work in vjirioas places, the majority of them to receive the lowest rate of wages—via , 2s 6d. Up to the present; time tile committee bnve had before them the names *}f 893 men, 400 of whom havo been provided with work. A Jarge number of the men did not answer to their names when called on, and a number of others were refused work for various good reasons. The'fact that so many namca hsvo been given ia shows conclusively, the committ--c hold, that * what they have all along be<rn oußpictous oE is the case—viz.,.that a number of men were leaving casual work they wece receiving, aud that a number of young fellows were leaving irrepular work where they were getting probably 103 or 12s a week and coming to thn committee to get steady work aS 4s 6d per day. One or two of yestwclay's applicants, when told that the committee could cot recommend more than 2a 6d per day, immediataiy said they could do better than- that outaido. The committee also discovered yesterday that a number of the applicants had lately come into town from np-oounl»-y, seme from tho goldfields and others from tbe Otago Central railway works. The committee will not meet again until next Friday. '

The following additional subscriptions have be:n received by the hon. treasurer of tbe Otago Miners' Association:—A. Sligo, 21s • M J. Fyfe, 21s.