ENGINEERING TRADE
PERAHSSION TO EMPLOY FEALALES. APPLICATION BY EMPLOYERS. (Per United Press Association.) Christchurch, May 20. Application to the Arbitration Court has been made by the employers in the engineering trade for permission to employ females and for a reduction in wages in regard to men. The application will be strongly opposed by the union when it comes before the Court on \June 18. STIIONG PROTEST MEETING OF AUCKLAND UNION. Auckland, Alay 20. A special meeting of the brassmoulders’, boilermakers’ and iron and steel shipbuilders’ unions last night considered the proposal of the Ironmasters’ /Association to ask authority to employ women, and unanimously resolved to protest against the Court’s action in allowing the employers to make application to amend the award which was made for two years and has been in operation only for six months and to enter a protest, against the introduction of female labour into the engineering industry. During the discussion it was stated that a larg? number of the men in the industry were now unemployed.
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Southland Times, Issue 21088, 21 May 1930, Page 11
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170ENGINEERING TRADE Southland Times, Issue 21088, 21 May 1930, Page 11
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