GIRLS IN FACTORIES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 223, 14 June 1919, Page 10

GIRLS IN FACTORIES

POSITION IN BOOT TRADE.

1 The elateiuent contained in a'ieiler from the Sccrela.ry of the labour Depart-: ment, Mr. ]:'. Tiowley, to the 'committee flf the Wellington Industrial Association, |that the Board of Control of employers ;and workers in the boot nianufnctifriiiK jndustiy did not favour a suggestion that ■the Government be urged to assist a nunilier of female workers, from Great 'Bri-it-ain. was contradicted at Auckland on |Wednesday by Mr. \V. Hainill, chairman of the New Zealand Boot Manufacturer.-;' Efficiency Board, and by Mr. T. iljeek. secretary of Ihe Board of Control. iTlic latter stated that the matter had not jfls yet come before the Board of'.Control, jintl the statement that members did not ji'nvour. Government action in the matter of immigration was certainly not true ;to fact.

: Mr. Jfumill slalwl that on May 1G a flepulAlion from the 800 l Manufacturers' ;;iliciency lioard waited on the Hon. G. ;W. Kussclt— -with the object of securin? (Jovmiment flbs : .i(auce in the matter uf !ni])orlation of female labour. For tho ast four year.', .-aid Mi:. Mamill, tholnldo ■hail suffered acutely from the shortage, 'of female labour, and the pAsition at 'present was so acute th«t progress had .practically ceased. Mr. , George George, Director of Technical Educatjon, hud recently elated that the Repatriation Board ;.had granted a oium of money with a view ■to tcieiiiiij,' returned soldiers eerlain branches: of the shoe industry. Manufacturers were asked to ass'st repatriation :by employing tlicsi; men, hut unless si ainoidit of female labour ran iivaikble, to work in co-operation witli i j these men, they would not bo able to absorb them into the industry. There (was sufficient work in the Dominion to jiibsor-b "at least'2oo men, and this would :mpan:emploYir«'!il: for about 100 women. ofl,i(Ui?a'B^2!!{)C? u <iee]c f fii i l'lia ! fioOt"luaiTiifac-' :luriil» r ''iifdlfM,i\v. buTA'it MtmfaY hopidMS. ,(o sftiijiVthe uecessiry : workers' 'u .Iho ■jJoniuiidnV ' ' ' . .