CHEESE FACTORY MANAGERS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 52, 11 February 1913, Page 6

CHEESE FACTORY MANAGERS.

The Southland ami (Jingo Cheese Factory Managers' Industrial Union oi Workers has cited the employers, and the case will be heard at a sitting of the Conciliation Council on February 25. The union will bo represented by Messrs John Sawers (Kdendale), A. Milne (Mataura) (i. 15. Matheson (Woodlands) and Chas. Bonil'aei (Otaia). It will be remembered that an agreement was arrived at between the representatives of the union and the South Island Dairy Association, but individual factory directorates did not fall in with it, hence the present citation (states tb<' 'Southland Tillies'). The union is now endeavoring to enforce its original demands, which wen considerably modified in the agreement referred to. The hours asked lor are 98 per week, including Sundays, and there are also clauses defining factory managers, regulating payment of salaries, terminating engagements, holidays, accommodation and allowances, contracts, number of assistants to be employed, preference to unionists, disputes, and the lixing of an employment bureau, it in proposed thai Ihe award shall remain in force for three years. SALARIES. The minimum salary to be paid to cheese factory managers in Southland and Otago shall be: For managers of first-class cheese laetory. t-1 (JO per annum ; for managers of seeond-class cheese factory, £370 per annum; lor managers of third-class cheese factory, .£.'3-10 per annum; for managers of fourth-class cheese factory, £3lO per annum; for managers of fifth-class cheese factory, .£2BO per annum; for managers of sixth-class cheese factory, £205 per annum: for managers' of seventh-class cheese factory, £'23o per annum: for managers of eighth-class cheese factory, £2lO per annum; for managers of ninth-class cheese factory, .•£l9O per annum; for managers of tenth-class cheese factory, £l7O per annum; for managers of eleventh-class cheese factory, £l5O tier annum; for managers of twelfth-class cheese factory, £l3O per annum.

CLASSIFICATION OF FACTORIES. The classification of cheese factories shall be: A first-class cheese factory shall be one which has an annual output or make of cheese from the first clay of September to the 31st day of the following August of over .">OO ions. A second-class cheese factory shall be one which lias an animal output of -101 to .500 tons. A third-class cheese factory shall be one which has an annual output of .'lOl to 100 tons. A fourthclass cheese factory shall be one which has an annual output of 251 to .'IOO tons. A fifth-class cheese factory shall he one which has an annual output of 20} to 2.30 tons. A. sixth-class clicose Jactory shall be one which has an annual output of I;ll to 200 tons. A seventh-class cheese laelorv shall lie one which has an annual output of ]'■>(> to 1.30 tons. An eighth-class cheese factory shall be one which has an annual output of 10.1 to 125 tons. A ninth-class cheese factory shall be one which has an annual output: of 70 to 100 tons. A tenth-class cheese factory shall be one which has an annual output of 51 to 75 tons. An eleventh-class cjieese factory shall be one which has Xn annual output of .'ll to 50 tons. A twelfth-class cheese factory shall be ono which has an annual output of 30 tons ai)tl under.