SETTLEMENT CRITICISED

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28792, 13 January 1959, Page 7

SETTLEMENT CRITICISED

Dairy Company Directors

(New Zealand Press Association > • HAMILTON. January 12. A very large attendance of dairy company directors, representing practically every company in the Auckland, Waikato, and Bay of Plenty areas, strongly criticised the agreement entered F last week between dairy factory workers and the employees. The meeting was held in Hamilton this afternoon, and it was called by the Auckland Dairy Factories . Industrial Union of Employers. It was presided over by Mr W. N. Perry, who said after the meeting that the directors represented more than 45 per cent, of the butterfa’t produced in New Zealand. The fact that a section of the workers could flout the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act by threatening an illegal strike, and the fact that the employers could get no support from the Government or the Federation of Labour, were very trenchantly commented on by several speakers, he said, and the following resolution was carried unanimously: “That this meeting expresses most grave concern at the circumstances which forced acceptance by the industry representatives of the demands of the workers to avoid the illegal action proposed by them and of the complete lack of responsibility shown by the Government in its duty to uphold the arbitration laws of the country, notwithstanding the extent to which the industry was prepared to go to support the Government in any such action.”