Money has been paid out in wages to store-keepers, warehousemen and the workmen needed for handling the stores in and out of stock.
In addition, there would be the effects on warehousing and warehousemen.
When the firm was forced to employ dockers, its staff increased from seven warehousemen to 14 dockers, costing an additional £1,500 per week.
Obviously, if they were derated, they would come into direct competition with those warehousemen whose business it was to store and not to transport.
I will deal first with the position of the warehouseman.
Most of them are dockers, railwaymen, warehousemen, earning an ordinary wage and who, at the moment, have their wage increases restricted.
In the export trades there are the merchants' warehousemen.
It also probably means that the warehouseman, the storeman and, to some extent, a supervisor within the business or undertaking must be there.
