THE BOOT TRADE.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1919, Page 7

THE BOOT TRADE.

BETTER CONDITIONS WANTED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The Arbitration Court reserved its decision in the application of the New Zealand Boot Trades Association for an increase in wages under the War Legislation and Statute Law Amendment Act, 1918, and for shorter hours for male operators. It was asked that the minimum wage should not be less than Is 7Jd an hour and 2Jd bonus, that the regular hours of work should be between 7.30 a.m. and 5 p.m. on five days of the week, and 7.30 a.m. till 12 noon, on the recognised factory half-holiday, and that an ordinary working week should consist of 44 hours, anytime worked beyond those hours to be paid for at the rate of time and a half. For female operatives it ■v:i« nsked that the hours of work should '' '!;■■' "nme as for males, and Mat the n rate should be females workhe boot and shoe industry, and I V.ii! gerved five years and upwards, '■ id a week, computed by the hour, !' ~. hread machinists £2 10s a week, ~t worked continuously tor that 1 " inJ P a 'd P er hour. m i ,;TOU n cls of the applications were ti« .. n j P ,ftS e in the cost of living as ' ' 'Ail 'by the Government statisticlan, igures, and the unhealthiness of th » fjaaS'