BAKING INDUSTRY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXVI, Issue 27, 31 December 1945, Page 6

BAKING INDUSTRY

EMPLOYERS' DEMANDS

UNIONISTS STAND FIRM

(Press Assn.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 31. Following the decision of the Auckland branch of the Baking Trades Employees' Union to work a 40-hour five-day week under the terms of the Factories Amendment Act, the Master Bakers' Association yesterday resolved :

. "That, in view of the threat by the union to refuse to work on Saturdays, except at. overtime rates, this meeting resolves that the union be informed that the Master Bakers' Association require the men to report for work for Saturday baking at the same time and a half rates at present ruling." The union is to be requested to give definite advice of its intention by noon on Thursday, January 3. | The secretary of the union (Mr F. H. Bourke) said this morning that the master bakers' resolution had been referred to the men at all the main bakeries in Auckland, and they were unanimous that they should abide by the resolution to work a 40-hour-week as from tomorrow. The employers' claim that the Industrial Disputes Committee fixed a six-day week for the industry last February was incorrect, said Mr Bourke. The committee had only power to fix the terms on which the men worked under a dispute at the time, and had no power to alternate the law.-