WHERE ARE THEY?

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1918, 28 November 1913, Page 8

WHERE ARE THEY?

A CONTRACTOR HAS TKOUBUS It is exceedingly difficult for auy employer of labour to know precisely where he stands in these "wiping times of strike," and anyone who takes on "contract work niust have tlie. prescient gift of a seer to know how he is likely to come out.of it. A ease in point cuuio under tho notice of one of our staff yesterday, it concerned the work iff connection with tiro demolition of tlio old Theatre Royal in Johnston Street. According to the terms of the contract tlifl building lias to he razed to tho ground and the section cleaned up by a certain date, so Messrs. W. H. Edwards and Co. had to push on with (.ho work. This class of work is visually done hy building trade kihmirei's under the direction of a carpenter or two. As tlie Building Trades. Labourers' t'nion was on strike, Mr. Edwards iwieuiTcl uther labour, and tlie Work had jmv cetdi'd a little, when the carpenters refused 1o work with tlie "free" labourers. In this predicament Messrs. JCdwards and Co. had to set rid of ilicit free men, and engage in <| w j,- p\ iKO a team of carpenters, who are being paid Vis. y t t\. per day for wrenching down old timbers.