ALLEGED SWEATING
"OUTWORKERS"-IN CLOTHING TRADES. Representatives of the clothing trades' unions ivaiteil on the Acting-Minister of Labour (the Hon, W. H. Herries) yesterday to urge him to consider the evils of the system of registering out-ivorkers under tho Factories Act. The Hon. J. T. Paul, speaking for the deputation, declared that abuses had grown out of the system, and that it encouraged a degree of sweating almost equal to that of earlier days. His proposition was that tho 6chemo ought to be abolished or that tlio licensing of out-workers should be subject to more rigid regulations. The Minister urged the deputation to submit to him deflnito , proposals, promising that ho would give them consideration when ho received them. He made it quite clear 'Chat ho did not approve of any system which would give rise to abuses resembling sweating.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 190, 7 May 1919, Page 6
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139ALLEGED SWEATING Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 190, 7 May 1919, Page 6
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