WORKERS ALLEGE UNFAIR HOLIDAY SYSTEM
(Per Press Association. Copyright.] DUNEDIN. This Day. As a protest against the alleged unfair holiday system, all 180 employees of Shacklock’s South End Foundry struck yesterday morning after a stopwork meeting, at which it was decided to cease work for the day. The basis of the men’s grievance is that instead of the customary closingdown on December 24 the management decided to close the works on •December 9 and reopen on January O
Tlie men claimed that they would lose the benefit of holiday pay for three statutory holidays, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day,
The spokesman for the men said they did not object to- the two extra weeks’ holiday, but to being given two weeks before Christmas.
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Northern Advocate, 30 November 1937, Page 13
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