DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8843, 20 June 1907, Page 4

DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

Labor Trouble.

Per Pross, Association, Auckland, Juno 19.

Mr Wesley Spragg, Managing Director of the N.Z Dairy Association, in a circular letter says that, "While considering the published demands of the Canterbury Employees' Union, aud the prospects of a similar union being formed in our districts, we have thought that the hurtful operations of such unions may be oreatly reduced by the adoption by dairy companies of the contract 3ysteni, instead of the present wages plan. This system will, we think, be more useful in cases of companies, which have a number of contributing creameries. Creamery work where one, or at most, two persons are employed, espec.ally lends itself to being done by contract. Some of the more definite operations of a butter factory may also be specified so as to be let on contract. The advantage of tbis would be that all work so let, would be outside the influence of industrial unions' labour laws which would not touch this manner of conducting the business, provided that bona fide contracts for specified work wore entered into. Contracts would require to be in contradistinction to an arrangement for piece work. This latter comes under the jurisdiction of the Arbitration Court."