DISPUTE IN TWO BAKERIES

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25364, 11 December 1947, Page 2

DISPUTE IN TWO BAKERIES

STRIKE THREATENED If the owners of two bakeries in Christchurch do not accede to the employees’ demand to cease deductions from pay for refusing to work on Saturdays by 5 p.m. to-day, the employees will strike. Workers at a third bakery have decided to support the proposed strike. Secret ballots on strike action were taken at the bakeries of Stacey and Hawker, Ltd., and C. E. Boon, Ltd., but no ballot was held among the employees of- G. Money and Sons. Ltd., who have expressed their approval of the action proposed. No comment on the situation made yesterday by Mr G. R. Burrowes, secretary of the New Zealand Master Bakers’ Association, or Mr M. C. Gillard, secretary of the Canterbury Baking Trades Employees’ Union. SHOE OPERATIVES’ STRIKE A strike of five and three-quarter hours on Tuesday by boot and shoe operatives at the Marathon Rubber Footwear, Ltd.’s, factory at Woolston ended in the company agreeing to pay the workers 10s a week, instead of 6s Bd, to which they were entitled under the amended award of the Arbitration Court, and to pay for six of the eight working hours lost. An application for an award of the full 10s under the standard wage pronouncement had been madg to the Arbitration Court by the workers, whose restiveness over delay in receiving a decision culminated in direct action.