SHIRTS FOR 3½D EACH

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20037, 8 September 1939, Page 3

SHIRTS FOR 3½D EACH

MANUFACTURER FINED SYDNEY, Aug. 18. Evidence was given at the chief industrial Magistrate’s Court yesterday that a widow, a mother of four children, had earned. £3 16s 6d in a week by making small boys’ shirts for 3id each. “I’d hate to know what hours this woman worked. She could not have devoted much time to her fatherless children,” said the chief industrial magistrate,. Mr. Prior. The evidence was given in a case in which Sydney Arthur Shead, of Pitt street, Sydney, was charged with having work covered by the Clothing Trades’ Award done outside n licensed factory. Mr. T. J. Kearney, of the Department of Labour and Industry, said that an inspector of the department had called at the home of Mrs. George, of Bellevue road, Waverley, and had seen her making small boys’ shirts. She said that she was being paid 3s tici a dozen for making them from materials supplied. Shead said that the woman was unable to earn more than 35s a week in any factory in Sydney, but she was able to earn £3 16s Gd a week working for him. The work was simple and any woman could earn good money at it. Shead was fined £7 10s and Gs costs.