FURNITURE TRADE HANDS
APPLY FOR INCRKASKI) WAGES. By Telegraph— I'resn Association. Duncdin, March 31. When .the furniture trade employees' application for an increaso of wages enme before tlio Arbitration Court, the Hon. J. T. Paul said the cost of clothing had increased over 100 per cent, and miscellaneous items over 'JO per cent. Labourers stacking timber an<l packing furniture received Is. lid. an hour, plus ii 10 per cent, bonus, '.the union asked for Is (id. an hour. Mr. Paul also urged that relief be given io parents of apprentices whose wages were inadequate to meel the. cost uf necessities. If I lie Court could not grant .relict, he thought the Kinployers' Association should reconsider the whole question m relation to the abnormal circumstances. The Court, reserved decision.^
]),. Howarth, the Medical Officer for (he V'itv of London, lias reported to the corporation that rats have enornfously increased since the prohibition ot nit-bail-ing. In former days the sewer-mcn carried sacks to hold living rats, for sale for baiting purposes. Now 110 market exists and a living rat is no longer a source ol profit to those. m ft position to capture
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 160, 1 April 1919, Page 6
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190FURNITURE TRADE HANDS Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 160, 1 April 1919, Page 6
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