TROUBLE AT KAIMATA CREAMERY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 161, 1 April 1908, Page 2

TROUBLE AT KAIMATA CREAMERY.

MANAGER'S DISMISSAL REPENTED. DIRECTORS ASKED TO RESIGN. . Suppliers to the Kaimata Creamery of the 'Moa Dairy, Company/are up in arms against their directors for having dismissed; the . creamery . manager,'. Mr.. Mackie, after ton yeais' 'service. ' Dudley Road' suppliers 'recently met .and t-lie-; following' resolution, jcovcd.Miy Me3sr's.vEgaiT v aiVd''Bridgeman:r—: v : • ! TKftt. r+Vilc > VrtAnf-in or • rtF. Hurllm?. "Ronrl : I

■•■xnat : tms;:moGtuig;ot Jiuuiey Koaa suppliers is highly indignant- at,the ac-v ..Kai&ata;.,' ■Sithonl'v 5 giving auj,taiigibLe jeaspa'.,i7Mteyer! and" ■ . '' fi^tiiirty-V----,'ono: suppliers. at! liaimata;who signeditne:', i '■: ' : patitibn..fchich■ was. preseiitbd to. the,dir-;' ■; :-. ectors at their ' last . meeting, and cori;'.Vsiders that ..go long as"' the .manager', is 1 • y jsatisfied.' with 'Mr/ -Maokie ; his',';service3 : '- 1 should be.. r'etained. - Also that Messrs.'', • Atkinson and Todd ibo 'requested, to ; re-V, . .consider!; their; determination, to resign !. from the. directorate." '■' ■*•■ i;: v : ; A petition signed by over thtee-fourths'of the suppliers/has been-presented-to It-he dir- ; .eritdrs asking that the manager should be re- . /instated: 7 > ." v''-;'/ •. •■.-•■ A;-''; 7,'y--' : ' Vy-: ','V'An indignation-'meeting "was/ held at 'Kairiiata last .weak, •: when' speeches' of hot protest ;v/ere: delivered.:';,ln 'the,' course- of the pro'ceedirigs the' ' general - factory. , manager 1 was asked', if' he had ': anjO' complaint .to ' make ' .against' the creamery manager,'and.he'replied that- ho had .always spoken very:/highly 'of Mr. Mackie's work. "They might f ,. get-''a pr'ea mory nianagor as' goodj peril a pi, but. -tEey cquld' hot get' a better', :as there wasn't a better. ■ ; ■ V Mr. : Todd' (tho only , director',-present),•'•saiid that-nO' complaint had. Wen laid, and .there was nothing whatever on the table: against Mr.'Mackio, and there never had' been a complaint against bim: There was 1 another phase of the. question, as' the' chairman ,skid aigood deal about Mr." 'Mackie- attending -the , meeting of the Labour Unions, but, so far. as they knew, this was- always done in 1 his : 'own time, ana there was ,not a scratch'of . a pen against .'.'Mr, Mackio in any form whateve.\- v: - ;• Mr. Haverbier said factory/proprietors had formed a Union as well, and the Moa Factory! had joined; in fact', out of"B3'.factories'ill the: district 32 had joined tho: Union,-, and,; therefore,' lie could not see how. they, could' blame tho employee's for having a Union also. .. /. It-was unanimously resolved, on the mor tion 01 Alessrs. Todd, and,, Paul That this meeting strongly 'objects to; the. 'action of the' directors ■ in ''dis-/ V • ' missing the Kaimata -manager," and con- ■ ■ siders - -his dismissal uncalled for, and " : subversive. alike of. justice, fairness,' and 7: • .'the' best intor-jsts of tho Company!; and-' ' also considers that it will detrimentally \'affect the good "feeling ithat should; exist.'' " bet-weenthe Company'and its employee?; ; • ',and-: further considers and that;. i the Kaim'ata manager'has given'satisfac- '.. ; •, tion to a- large majority of the suppliers,- - :and . thati therefore, his: services 1 should . be'retained by the Goinpanj'."/ '. It was further resolved, .unanimously;- - . " That this meeting endorse the resolution passed : by the meeting Tat'. Dudley < Road.'!'; (Movers—Messrs. W. Leech and ;! Paul.) " That in consideration'of the way in ; : which the directors have treated the ICai-, mata creamery manager,.Messrs.' Her-, liliy, M'MaJion, Jones, and: Stackurski , • bo requested ,to resign their positions on -the directorate!"v , (Mo-vers-rMessrs.. : Jenkins and G. Capper.) ■■ 1 1 " That the shareholders petition tho ! 1 ; directors to .'call .an extraordinary -meet- " . ing of shareholders at an early date: for the purpose of explaining their reasons • : for dispensing with'the services: of tho.- ; Knimata manager, and to transact any other business that may be brought be--fore it." ; (Movers —Messrs. Haverbier ' and C. Old;). .. i" : ... ! Motions were also carried thanking Dudley Road and Inglcwood suppliers for'support in tho movement. ' " ~ '' '; ,'