WORK AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 158, 25 June 1908, Page 3

WORK AND WAGES.

\ ATTACHMENT OF WAGES.

INDIGNATION AT GISIJORNE.

By Telegraph—Press Association. (jisborne, Last Night. Considerable indignation has been expressed locally at tlij- action of the local S'actory Inspector in attaching the wages of the members of the t reezers Union. Speaking to a Times reporter, the Inspector of Fadories (Mr- Ormodyl said that the im-mUrs of the Freezers' Union whose wages were attached in payment of fine- had had every opportunity to pay during the Ust 'six months, but made no elfort to do go. "They were written to ti»ie ami •gain," the ln-|-"etor explained, -an,l I even went to the trouble or tu the™ personalty. Ti.ev pr.mn-ed t«> cone into the otiice and nuke ai rang- • Stents to pav tip, but did not do so anil failed to keep promise- made on Saturaay week last. Some member- oi tmUnion (-ame into my office and mane arrangements to pay by in-talnieii'- aim their wages were not inter|eii-l will. Moreover.'added Mr. Carmodv. "the amount earned through til- mcrca-d pav obtained through the strike would have paid the line over and over again.