SKILLED LABOR.
LABOR DEPARTMENT REFUTE EMPLOYE RS’ STATEMENTS.
(Per Press Association.) . AUCKLAND, March 31
The scarcity of skilled labor is seriously impeding tlie output of the Auckland manufacturing industries. The manager of one clothing factory stated that' lie could do with a hundred hands. Others made similar statements. It was further stated that the labor conditions, are so serious that orders were being sent abroad. Several employers advocated the importation, of skilled labor, one suggestion being that Government should circularise all employers asking for particulars of the labor they required, with a guarantee to employ a r-ccr-tain number engaged by a committee sent to London, arid" allocated to various industries on the list. Mr iSlianaglian, representing the Labor Department in Auckland, replying to employers’ statements, said there is no serious shortage of competent labor. There is no excessive demand one way or the other. _ Labor leaders state that unrestricted immigration has already been the subject of a resolution to the Trades ■Conference.' They assert there is no justification for the allegation that there is a serious dearth of labor.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2154, 1 April 1908, Page 1
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