WORK AND WAGES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2082, 17 May 1907, Page 3

WORK AND WAGES.

Press Association —Copyright, UNDERPAID WORKERS.

HOBART, May 15. The report of the Royal Commission on wages finds in the millinery, tailoring, and clothing trades much to condemn. The hours of waitresses are too long for the remuneration paid. In certain trades there is a practice demanding premiums, anil this and the fact’ that too many apprentices are employed in proportion to the number of journeymen, are condemned severely. The Commission comments on the wages paid laborers by the Hobart City Council. STRIKE OF COPPER-MINERS. Received May 16, 12.9 p.m. SYDNEY, May IG. All the copper mines in the Cobar district are practically idle, owing to a strike of employees for higher wages and preference to unionists. (Per Press Association.)

COMPOSITION OF THE COURT. AUCKLAND, yesterday. The Trades and Labor Council discussed a recommendation from the Conference that Unions support Mr. J. A. McCullough, of Christchurch, as workers’ representative. Mr. Rosser said he was still as strongly in favor of Mr. Slater as ever, but that the Auckland Council should not be open to the accusation of kicking over the traces he proposed the Unions he left to deal with the matter individually. MrTTvosser commented on the recent awards of the Arbitration Court, and said he felt safe in saying they were oh the upward grade as regarded wages with the new President. Mr. Rosser’s proposal was substituted for a motion recommend-

ing Mr. Slater, and was carried unanimously.

FACTORY HOLIDAYS. EKETAIIUNA, yesterday. A meeting of business people resolved to urge the Government to amend the Factories Act in the direction of allowing local bodies to fix the half-holiday.