SADDLERS' WAGES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14963, 16 July 1919, Page 7

SADDLERS' WAGES.

SUGGESTION THAT TARIFF BE REMOVED. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. Dissatisfaction at the action ot the Arbitration Court in not allowing the members of the Auckland • Saddlers' Union increased wages and a war bonus for which application was made at a recent sitting of the Court, was expressed at a stop-work meeting of members of the union to-day. The meeting car- , lied a resolution asking for a conference with the employers not later than Saturday, July 26, to review the Court's decision, and failing a decision satisfactory to the union being reached* at the conference, the Government be asked to review tho decision of tho Arbitration Court, with a view to raising the minimum wage of saddlers to at least the rate awarded by the Court to other skilled trades; and failing this being done the union will joiil the Boot Employees' Federation in demanding the removal of ail tariffs on imported leather goods, feeling that if the industry .. with " the assistance of the tariff cannot afford to pay the wages of skilled workers to employees in the industry, it would be better for the country generally for the tariffs to be removed, and . for the workers now employed in the industry to seek employment elsewhere, or in some other industry.