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Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 64, 31 May 1912, Page 13

The trade union factory cwm.d and! controlled by the Australia.; Saddlery Employees' Association, N<-v< South Wales branch, has rccrn.-'i work from the Defence Department. This was obtained in open tonde- nah all the leading saddlers of thr Commonwealth, and the first section ci tho work has been passed by the, inspectors. The factory is run on ordinary business lines, the union as employer paying wages slightly higher than those ruling outside. The work obtained from the Defence Department is the making of stirrup leathers, supporting straps, surcingles, and such like, and the contracts amount to about £1000. In every case in which work was given to tho factory its ten- i dor was the lowest received. j