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THE TAILORING TRADE

WORKERS' WAGES RAISED AT BLENHEIM. '.Br•• TeleEr&i>h—Press Annotation.' " Blenheim, February 27. A conference regarding wages was held •between the Blenheim tailors'and their male" employee?. Application was-made by the workers for a' 25' ner cent; increase owing to the advanced cost of livine.' ■•./.• :The master tailors recognised that tho demand waginstifiable-awl granted it, suggesting at thet samp.time that the. contiiinal ..process of putting nn tho manufacturing.and. rot.ai) prices was riot Hie true solution .of the problem. The solution din .. riot lie .in the ..direction . of shorter hours either, or of increased payment,' but rather .in a return oil the part of the. consuming 'public to-mora sihiplo' tastes and los?, expensive habits, as' 1 well as increased nrodiiction on the part of workers generally. ■'A'2s per cont. increase in the price of lndies'oostumes was'considered by the master tailors. Severn I suggested the possibility' of haviiij/ to discontinue taking orders for ladies' costumes.

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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 132, 28 February 1920, Page 7

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THE TAILORING TRADE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 132, 28 February 1920, Page 7

THE TAILORING TRADE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 132, 28 February 1920, Page 7

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