EXTENSION OF ROUES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 257, 27 September 1940, Page 10

EXTENSION OF ROUES.

DAIRY WORKERS OBJECT.

At the annual meeting of the "Wellington branch of the New Zealand Dairy Factory and Related Trades Employees’ Industrial Union of Workers, held in Palmerston North last evening, the following resolution was carried unanimously:—“That this moeting records an emphatic protest ß3 fc the extension of the 52-hour period Tin cheese factories from 22 to a maximum of 43 weeks, which will not help in any ivay to produce the extra 15,000 tons of cheese required. The recent order will do nothing except to compel workers (in those factories that work under the order) to work alt hours in excess of 44 hours for Is 3d per hour, and all hours in excess of 38 hours for 9d per hour. The overwhelming weight of evidence given before the Industrial Emergency Committeo was in favour of the workers but the Minister of Labour with the agreement of so-called representatives of Labour appointed to that committee, lias seen fit to deal the dairy workers a blow we .are',.;not likely to forget.”