OVER-RIDING AWARDS
STATE
REGENT ;; “The opinion ofttapieps in the Auckland Provincewith that of southern jfarmerk; espresr sed in respjutjpns^passed, at recent confierences in j;he-South,” solid’. Mr* R. H. directors of 'the. j^w r . Zjegland Co-op l -- jerative Dairy Company,, - in' com l -’ imenting oni., r f e>cdUtfons lr passed -at irecent dairy conferences in' the* iSouth Island the action jof the Gove ta rnen.t,. du ri ng' the* 'freezing works dispute. ! “Waikato farmers hold- the. same* jopinion as regards the interference jfjy the' Government with the police' in * their" obvious duty of ejecting strikers from the freezing workr during the stay-in strike and also in regard to the -action ( of a Minister in. over-riding Jtbe,.award fixed by the Arbitration Court,” he cOnjtinlied! “The .action jakpu was an' .exceedingly dangerous precedent ’calctilirtfed to make the position of 1 bmployets' iiitoler-fhle.' . ' j: “There aiivtmg’ •bll shades of ; pbiitlcal'‘thought that ■jthe farming''cbiiiTfiuh'itV;' 1 should be’ bompensated.' fot 11 increases in' costs subsequent’ to the guaranteed price scheme "beingta'bijoht info op- 1 ieration,” continued Mr McKenzie. The price- was calculated ’ ori' the' weighted average’ bVei* the preceding • 10'years. Surely it was‘ah in;' equity that costs, Whibh W'cfe'made" pp almost entirely of tabbiir, should have been competed oh the' safriC” •basis. '■ "' 1: " 3$
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Waikato Independent, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3270, 23 February 1937, Page 4
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