FULL AGREEMENT REACHED

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22666, 22 March 1939, Page 7

FULL AGREEMENT REACHED

MANAGERS OF DAIRY FACTORIES

CONCILIATION COUNCIL HEARING

Complete agreement was reached in the Conciliation Council yesterday when the South Island dairy factories managers’ dispute was heard. The award will apply to dairy company managers in Canterbury, Marlborough, Nelson and Westland. The Conciliation Commissioner (Mr S. Ritchie) presided. Representing the employers were Messrs D. I. Macdonald, J. B. Trudgeon, C. P. Agar. S. J. Smith, S. R. Muff, P. J. O’Regan, and G. Herron. The employees’ representatives were Messrs H. Branthwaite, J. Murray, and A. E. Reid. The minimum yearly rates of wages in butter factories will be as follows: —Up to an output of 100 tons, £312 per annum; from 101 tons to 300 tons, 7s for every additional ton; from 301 tons to 600 tons, 6s for every additional ton; from 601 tons to 800 tons, 5s for every additional ton; from 801 tons to 1000 tons, 4s for every additional ton; from 1001 tons to 1500 tons, 3s for every additional ton; from 1501 tons to 2000 tons, Is for every additional ton; from 2001 tons to 3000 tons, 6d for every additional ton and thereafter by mutual arrangement. In cheese factories, the minimum salary to be paid to managers on a yearly contract will be £252 10s per annum. In factories where more than 40 tons of cheese is manufactured during the year, an additional payment will be made of 11s for every ton manufactured in excess of 40 tons. In factories where less than 40 tons of cheese is made during the year, the weekly wage may be paid in lieu of the yearly salary for the period worked at such rates as shall be fixed by the committee of two representatives of the union and two of the employers, with an independent chairman. It was agreed that each manager should be provided with a suitable residence rent free, that managers of cheese factories should be provided without charge with cheese, milk and

household free and butter where butter was supplied to suppliers, and that managers of butter factories should be supplied with butter, milk and coal for their household requirements. In lieu of these supplies employers may pay £2 a month. It was agreed that the award should operate until June 30, 1940, wages to be retrospective to July 1, 1938, provided that where the financial year of any company ends on July 31, the wages clause shall operate from August 1.