BOOT OPERATIVES' DISPUTE
employment of an, unskilled .worker:
By telegraph—Press Association. , Auckland, May IS. The Murray Shoe Company ceased work last night in consequenco of a dispute with the employees regarding the employment of an unskilled worker. It is stated that tho man, who is not a returned soldier, was put on in the finishing department, and was sent to the Union office to join as a member, but was refused. The reason given was that one of the members was then out of employment when the man was placed in the finishing department. The foreman and other men refused to give him any instruction in the minor operations, and tho firm dispensed with- their services: The workmen stated that they wero acting in accordance with a resolution of the union. Thoy also said they objected to an unskilled man receiving the same wages as they did after.a five years' apprenticeship.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 204, 17 May 1918, Page 7
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151BOOT OPERATIVES' DISPUTE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 204, 17 May 1918, Page 7
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