DISPUTE BY BAKERS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19106, 29 August 1936, Page 2

DISPUTE BY BAKERS

CONCILIATION AGREEMENT REPUDIATION SUGGESTED (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. A suggestion that master bakers a 1 ‘ attempting to repudiate the reached in conciliation proceeding h A ■week in connection with the bMa's Dominion dispute to been inade by the secretary of the Auckland = Pastry Cooks Union, Mr. F. J. M atson. to the Minister of Industries and Commerce, the Hon. D. G Sullivan, as a result of receiving a telegram ftom conciliation commissioner. Mi. hitch , stating that, the employers assessors had not signed the agreement. In commenting, upon the position. Mr. Watson said it- looked as though the employers had had their ends served by the price of bread being raised, and (Hat t] lev now did not care what happened to ‘the employees. The agreement related to bakers in the Auckland, Wellington and Canterbury industrial districts although it was not complete m that Urn limiting of the daily hours was left for the consideration of the Ailutiatio Court The employees’ assessors hatl signed the agreement- before thpy iett Wellington.

“I do not know what the employers want.” concluded Mr. Watson. When the matter was submitted to Mr S S. Green, the secretary of the Auckland Master Bakers’ Association, lie stated that the council of conciliation had assembled in Wellington recently and an agreement was arrived at. When the agreement was finally drafted, the workers’ representatives claimed that one machinery clause included in the drait had not "been agreed to by them in the council proceedings and the employers representatives were just as definite the other way.

Notwithstanding this dispute, the executive of the Auckland Mastei Bakers’ Association decided nt its meeting yesterday that the terms and conditions of the agreement should he put into operation immediately, and all bakers in the Auckland province were so notified by circular posted yesterday.