WORK AND WAGES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2050, 10 April 1907, Page 3

WORK AND WAGES.

ONE MILLION UNDERPAID WORKERS.

(Press Assn. —By Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received April 9. 8.34 u.ni.) BERLIN, April 8. The central committee of the German trade unions report that millions of people are not receiving a living wage. In 27 out of 66 organised trades the average wage was below; 3s a day, including the clothing industry, representing 242.00 J workers, the Saxon textile industry, with 225,C00 workers, North and South German textile unions, 244,000 workers, and tobacco industry, 150,000 workers. Hie Voerivarts declares that 2) millions of skilled laborers are earning between Is 9d and 3s a day.

Press Association. AUCKLAND, lrst night. At ttjio Arbitration Court to-day, Clive Jenkins, grccc-r, admitted two breaches of award by employing an assistant casually instead of weekly, and employing a boy at less than the minimum wage. He was fined £1

in each case. Win. s-utton, assistant, being fined 10s for boing a party to tho broach. The citation of Frith and Son, Devonport, hairdressers, for a broach of tho hairdressors’ assistants award, arose on bolialf of tho enterprise of a harbor, who, while employed during tho week in a saloon in tho city, filled in Saturday halfholiday by working for respondent. This was in contravention to a special clause in tho award prohibiting assistants in permanent employment from working on holidays. A lino of £1 was imposed. J. W. Shackelford and Klourrio, for a broach of the tailor’s award, which provides that all bespoke work shall he done ill the shop of the employer ,woro fined £5 each upon the citation by Inspector of Awards and £1 each with £2 2s costs in the case brought by tho Union. Several employers who pleaded guilty and paid £5 fines for neglecting to give preference to Unionists had failed to examine their employment book. Some of them evidently had an impression that they would bo much better suited if they exorcised their own discretion by looking up tho men known to them and it was news when Mr. Brown, employers representative, on the Bench remarked, “You are not. bound to take men whose names are on the book if they do not suit you, hut to look at tho book first.”