THE CLOTHING TRADE.
WELLINGTON, May 6. A conference of representatives of all branches of the Journeymen Tailors' Federation- and Clothing Trade Workers' (or Tailoresses) Federation adopted a proposal that all unions of employees in the tailoring and clothing trades should amalgamate. A deputation representing the clothing trade workers waited upon the Acting Minister of Labour (Mr Herries) to-day for the of urging him to consider the ovils arising out of the registration of outWorkers under the Factories Act. The Hon. J. T. Paul stressed the abuses to which the present system had been put, and stated that certain definite evils which had arisen in the clothing trade system encouraged a degree of sweating almost equal to that of the earlior days. He Urged that the practice should bo either
prohibited or made (subject to more strict regulations. The Minister was sympathetic towards the deputation, but urged those concerned to submit to him definite proposals on the lines advocated, and said these proposals would receive his consideration.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3400, 14 May 1919, Page 48
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166THE CLOTHING TRADE. Otago Witness, Issue 3400, 14 May 1919, Page 48
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