CHEESE FACTORY HOURS
EXTENSION RESENTED RESOLUTION BY WORKERS [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] PALMERSTOX XORTH, Friday The annual meeting of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Dairy Factory and Eclated Trades Union of Workers passed a resolution protesting at the extension of the 52-hour period in cheese factories from 22 weeks to a maximum of 43 weeks, contending that this would not help in any way in the production of 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 all hours in excess of 44 for Is 3d an hour, and all hours in excess of 38 hours for 9d an hour," added the resolution. "The overwhelming weight of evidence given before the Industrial Emergency Committee was in favour of the workers, but the Minister of Labour, the Hon. P. C. Wehb, with the agreement of the so-called representatives of Labour appointed to that committee, has seen fit to ,deal the dairy M'orkers a blow we are not likely to forget."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23773, 28 September 1940, Page 12
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