FEMALE BOOKBINDERS
NEW AWARD SOUGHT Willingness of city female bookbinders, and girls engaged in allied trades to accept the old award, was announced by Mr. B. Martin, on behalf of th© union, to the Arbitration Court, yesterday afternoon, when application for a new award was submitted. The union’s advocate announced that it would be satisfied with the old award for all branches, except paperbag making, for which the union was wiilng to accept the rates of pay and conditions in the Dunedin award. It. was suggested that the award should not be applied to girs engaged in packing, sorting and taking off. On behalf of the employers, Mr. G. C. Codlin pointed out that, if exemption from the award was granted to certain girls in the paper-bag making trade, the award should also not apply to girls in other departments who were performing similar work. He sup-, ported the demand for a reduction in wages, contending that the lean times and diminution of business at present did not warrant the present high rates, which, in the case of females with more than five years’ service, reached £ 216 s weekly. The court reserved its decision.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 897, 14 February 1930, Page 11
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