TAILORESSES' DISPUTE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 265, 5 August 1919, Page 2

TAILORESSES' DISPUTE

Tho demands and counterproposals'in the dispute between the Wellington Tailoressesj P'ressers, Cutters, and ether Clothing Trade (except Tailors) Employees' Industrial Union of Workers and the Wellington Master Tailors' Industrial Union of .Employers wero further con-, sidcrcd before . tho Conciliation Commissioner, -Mr. W!' Newton, at the. Conciliation Council. Tho employees claim "that apprentices shall liavo .the right to leave an employer who is unablo to provide a teacher during tho wholo term of apprenticeship," created much discussion, during which the Hon. J. T. Paul, M.L.C., made reference to tlw inadequacy of tho apprentice law in this country. The trouble, ho said, would not, ho remedied-until a proper apprentice law was placed on the Statute Boole. The parties agreed that the proposed clause should not be added. Agreement was reached on several minor matters, but no decision was arrived at 011 the question of wages and tho "team system" (division of labour). Tho assessors were: Tor the tailoresses: Hon. J. T.-Paul, M.L.C., Edith Vaughan, and Annie ,Tcbb: for the employers: Messrs. ,T. J. 8011, J, A. Dohcrty, and Morrison. Farther sittings of tho council ere to bo held at Palmerston North, Wangauui, and Napier,