DAIRYING INDUSTRY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17230, 9 April 1930, Page 12

DAIRYING INDUSTRY

| NEW AWARD FILED FEW ALTERATIONS MADE (IVr Press Association.) U'KI.UXC'KiX. last night. l-'ew departures iVmu the old award were made hy the Arhilration Courl in the award issued to-day governing rou ilitions in lnitter and elice.se factories and creameries. The eotirl regard.:d the present t hue as iuoppoi 1 uuu for ma king changes which would have the effecl ul' increasing i osis of product ion. In a me randum lo the award. Mr. .In-: ice [<Yn/.cn said i he prin ipal mat tcr in dispute was the hours of work. The court recognised thai the hours of work during the hllsy season were longer limn lle.se in other industries and it was recognised also that they were spread over a seven day Week. I hough those disadvantages were, to some extent, com pensated for hy the prospect of con sidorublv shorter hours during I he slack season, 'and hy the mauling of holiday leave on fyill pa\ . I he com 1 would prefer, if it could sec Us \\;\\ in do so, lo spread the daily hours more evenl\ o\ e.r the %'holc season and to allow a day ell' per week lo each worker. In Ihe smaller f.T lories, a i eal ditficulty was involved in arranging for a weekly day off daring ihe lm«y season and. in many of the larger factories, there would he an increase in rosis. in view of the presenl conditions of Iht dairy produce market, the couit. realised thai the present nine was in opportune for making any material altera! ion in the conditions under which Hie factories were working. It had. however, decided lo li\ a shorl lime for (he curteiiYY of the presenl award to i''eiirnur\ 28, 1931. and it hoped thai, if the market improved before another award was applied for, Ihe parties would concent-rate their efforts <m the framing o.' a. system of working which would on able a six day week lo he worked. Lt was recognised, of course, that the i'ac tories miisl. in most cases, work on seven days a week, hid it ought to lie posibln In arrange for mutual con cessions that, would enable the workers to have a weekly day off without unduly ijiceasing I he costs of production. A majority of the court had amended (he classification of workers in the smaller cheese factories lo conform lo the classilication existing in the Northern and (Hugo and Southland districts. Mr. I Schuiiu desired lo record a dissent in j that mailer. Willi thai exception the

awai'd was concurred in by all the mem hci'S of the court.