UNION DEMANDS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 177, 28 June 1941, Page 6

UNION DEMANDS.

DIRECTORS AS AYORKERS. AUCKLAND, June 26. “\Yc have been threatened with prosecution if we do not acccclo to the union demands,” stated Mr J. G. Brechin, of Pahiatua, at the National Dairy Confer’emo, when reporting tiiat objections had been raised to directors of local cheese lactones working in the factories m an effort to solve the labour problem. “The union secretary came to us and said that any directors working in the factory would have to join the union, and failing that, the factory assistants ordinarily employed who did not do the work would have to receive the wages involved among them,” stated Mr Brechin. • This dictum had been laid down in respect of directors, their sons, or employees who undertook such work. The A 1 blister of Agriculture (Mr Barclay) said this was news to him. “T am surprised it did not come to the notice of my department,” he said. There had been a similar difficulty in regard to farmers assisting each other with shearing. T am quite confident flic Government can overcome lh.- difficulty in the same way as it did in the case of the shearers.” he iadded. “I shall take up this question when 1 get hack to Wellington.”