THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 137, 2 August 1911, Page 5

THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

the Editor “Stratford Post.”) , glr,— In your issue of Thursday last tWe is a paragraph to the effect that a representative meeting of dairy-fac-employers, hold at Hawera on the previous Tuesday, had decided to raise the wages of factory assistants to sbuiethmg like the level of the old Tariihaki award. The following letter been sejit to the secretary of the employe’s union, and speaks for itself.;' I may say that since fonvardjhgf the Totter wo have received full pUrticulars as to the extent of the increases/ etc.; decided on, and they atp now under consideration by us.— I am, etc., ’ r J. ROBERTSON. 'Palmerston North, July 29th, 1011. “•■i • -

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Palmerston North, ; July 28, 1911. 3\lr. T. Harry Penn. ', Hear Sir,—Re the meeting held at Hawera on Tuesday, 25tli, it is Vpry gratifying to us to have your ppipn recognising ours in such a practical 'fashion, as to accede to our demand for higher wages. The value of the concessions, we are not at present il* p position to judge, and in order tlliltl we may have an opportunity of dping so, we will be glad it you will fdnvurd ns a statement of the scale of wages, l etc., agreed upon. Of course, wo regret very much that you have ilbt teen your way to meet us in conference as suggested, and we still thmk it will ho better for all if this ik dpne as soon as possible. We, however, .thank you in the meantime for assisting us to demonstrate the value pf pur union to those employed in the Industry by making the concessions already .reported.—Yours faithfully, ' (Signed) J. ROBERTSON, Secretary Taranaki Dairy Factory Employees’ Union. . [The'; Secretary to the Employers’ phipu states his Union has no cognisance of any such meeting as referred to by our correspondent.—Ed. ‘ ( Stratford Post.”]