HAMPERING TRADE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1726, 18 April 1913, Page 5

HAMPERING TRADE.

(, LACKADAISICAL WORKMEN. NOT UP IN THE MORNING EARLY

Bf Telesraph-l'rees Asßooiation-Oopjrißht (Kec. April 17, 9.10 p.m.) London, April 17. There is much discussion in (he newspapers over the persistent short lime worked by factory employees owing to present prosperity. The owners of textile machine factories state that the'machinery works fifty-six hours per week, while the hands work forty-eight. Monday morning, they say, is almost a blank in the matter of work done. Leading-shipbuilders, interviewed, say that the platers and riveters earn a week's money in four days, and theu iefuse to work any longer. Many wellpaid hands arrive at nine o'clock in the morning, regardless of the fact that the plant is idle, and thus penalising the unskilled workers. Many of the employers are unablo to book fresh, orders because the men will not do an ordinary day's work. NIGHT SHIFTS DISCONTINUED. ' (Rcc. April 17, 0,40 p.m.) London, April 17. The night shifcs nt the Chatham dockyard have been discontinued, owing to the Society of Engineers' attitude. The dockyard men aro much concerned at the decision, becauso the remuneration paid on the niglit shift amounts to eight days' pay for live ordinary days' work. AN EFFECT OF HIGHER WAGES. London, April 16. Owing to the increase in wages of employees, British shipbuilders lost tho building of three steamers. A Dunkirk (France) firm will build them, at a cost of half-a-niillion pounds.