DAIRY FACTORY WAGES.

Southland Times, Issue 22040, 13 June 1933, Page 7

DAIRY FACTORY WAGES.

To the Editor.

Sir,’Tis wondrous how situations and surroundings change us. I wonder if the mover of the remit at the Dairy Conference in Dunedin to drastically cut dairy company employees’ wages ever casts his mind back to other days when he himself was a wage earner, getting ten or fifteen shilling per week more than a factory worker, for a day and a-half less each week in an atmosphere of hats and coats and nice new cloth instead of heated wax, water, steam and rotten whey. Of what benefit will a 33 1-3 per cent, cut be to individual suppliers; if the work was done for nothing companies may notice it. It looks as if the Mabel Dairy Company partly blame the assistants (who WORK for their money) for the deplorable state of the dairying industry to-day, whereas highly-paid administrators may be the cause. Looks to me to be a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul.—l am, etc., “CUT TO PIECES.”