DAIRY WORKERS
INQUIRY INTO EMPLOYMENT SUGGESTED The suggestion that a committee representing all interested sections of the dairy industry should be set up by the Government to go into the question of the employment of dairy workers is advanced in a statement by the national president of the New Zealand Dairy Factories and Related Trades Employees’ Industrial Union of Workers, Mr H. J. McKeown, and the secretary of the Auckland branch, Mr J. P. John. Pointing out that at no time during the history of the industry was there such a -deman 1 for scientific knowledge of the manufacture of high-grade butter and cheese, the statement claims that many men trained at Massey College have left the industry for want of employment. It is also said that in some dairy factories the holders of diplomas receive only £4/10/- a week, the lowest wage paid in the industry. Many young men had spent as much as £2OO or £3OO of their own money in taking a diploma, but they had even then no guarantee of employment. Good men were constantly leaving the industry.
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Southland Times, Issue 24154, 17 June 1940, Page 10
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182DAIRY WORKERS Southland Times, Issue 24154, 17 June 1940, Page 10
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