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Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1920, Page 5

Considerable attention is being paid to the increase in the coat of production in manufacturing trades just now, and the secretary of the Wellington Master Printers' Association, who has been busy in (his direction, lias compiled some very interesting returns (says the Dominion)* He'shows, for instance, that the increass in wages and money privileges. to employees in the printing trade as between 11)14 and 1020, for the Dominion is about 80 per cent., or some £400,000, with J payment for holidays, reduced hours, and wages increases. Linotype operators, who work 42 hours per week, have boeii granted increases in wages, bonuses an d payment for holidays ranging from £2 7s to .12 lis per week; linotype pieoa hands, who work from .18 (day) to 32 • (night) hours per week, from £1 17s ta .12; bookbinders, lithographers, and machinists from £2 7s 3d to £2 13s pel week; compositors, from £o i<j, cj to. £2 ISs 3d. The cost of material, incidentals, etc., has increased to four times what it was in 1914, so that there must be an enormous increase in the- charges to overtake the increased cost. Jn 1914 the returns in the trade showed an average profit of 3 per cent., but the charww will have to be quadrupled lo pradUM \4HJU}Im r»»ult tUi year. -™