ALLEGED SWEATING.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8899, 20 August 1907, Page 2

ALLEGED SWEATING.

Per Press Association. Nelson, August 19. George Carpenter, a draper, was charged under the Factories Act with having exposed for sale a shirt unlabelled to show it was made outside a registered factory. It transpired in evidence that Carpenter paid 7-jd for making a shirt, the worker to find buttons, cotton, cutting out and find her own machine. _Hc also paid Gd each for women's chemises and knickers. Defendant pleaded guilty ilxkl ignorance of lie piiicl the same rate as wholesale linns in Dunedin. He said he had an offer from ’Wellington to make boys shirts at Os a doz and men's shirts at 8s a doz. He thought his workers could make a shilling an hour for chemises and knickers and even more for nightdresses. The Inspector of Factories said he had been told that one woman w-orking long hours earned 13s a week. The Magistrate declared that it was the thin end of the wedge of sweating, which must be prevented. As it was the first case in Nelson he fined defendant ill with costs 30s, but said that future cases would bo more severely dealt with.