FACTORY WORKERS' WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 322, 24 January 1908, Page 2

FACTORY WORKERS' WAGES.

, Duuedin, Last Night. J lie following resolution was passed at the executive meeting of the Ota«o Jwiiiployers Association this afternoon: I hat as some of the inspectors of factories arc interpreting section 14 of the lactones Act Amendment Act, 1907 as constituting a weekly employment, 'and as such a construction if given effect to would have a. very serious effect upon the manufacturing industries of the Dommiou the executive of the Otago Kmpio,\ers Association is of opinion that the first case brought under this section should be. treated as a test case and aken up by the New Zealand Employers' federation and contested along the iir-os <>t the following judgments (which lay it down that a full week must be worked before a worker is entitled to ii lull weeks nay),—Lindsay y. Mollinson and Co., BfttltW Awards Vol. V. page 280: llisnectnrjif Factories v. Whift <»mbe and foml. Labor Journal, Septen.ber, I'M:, ~, „ ,i 42 j a»d Auekhlml laiforsv. !)■ ~, :'nrp, Labor Journal. December. 1 i.\ ,£J 1.574. andj turth->r ; that in the nieanji,•■■. all wages, with the exception of apprentices', are paid according (0 the custom prevailing previous to the passing of the Amendmeut Act."