TARIFF REFORM IN BRITAIN.
Need For Safeguarding. WOOL INQUIRY OPENS. •'fitted TV«v, AnaorlrUlrn—TV CloetrU LONDON, February 27. ! The wool safeguarding inquiry ! dealt to-day with the extent the ; Vuv wages ’ and long hours of the • Continent count in competition, which | the British manufacturers have to meet. Mr Ileni.v Spencer, chairman of the Shipley District Employment Commitfc© and tho Minister of Labour, g.ving evidence saitl tho wages in Poland were 30 to 40 per cent of the British; Italy and Czecho-Slovakia 40 [to 45 per cent; Belgium 50; France and Germany 57 and Holland 75.
Regarding Germany Mr Spencer pod need statistics showing that among 36.519 textile workers, 36.3 worked 52 to 54 hours weekly. A substantial proportion in Yv ales actually worked more than 56 hours. Of 15,107 skilled male workers 42 per cent averaged 52 to 54 hours, and of 15,227 skilled female workers two-thirds averaged 48 to 54 hours.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18202, 1 March 1929, Page 9
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