DOMESTIC SERVANTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 144, 19 June 1936, Page 7

DOMESTIC SERVANTS

FORMATION OF UNION MINISTER’S SUGGESTION [ Per Press Association J WELLINGTON, June 18. •Since the clause dealing with workers not employed for the pecuniary gain of employers had been delete-1 from the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Bill, provision would have to be made in some other Act to safeguard the conditions and wages of domestic servants and othe r s eliminated, said the Minister of Labour, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, in an interview to-day. “1 am not in a position to say what form this legislation will take,” said thy Minister, “but 1 have been discussing it for some time with mv colleagues and with officers of the Department of Labour. Incidentally, there never has been anything in the law of the country to prevent domestic servants from forming ouicns, but probably if they had formed unions and applied for awards the fact that they were not employed for pecuniary gain would have ruled them out. For certain reasons, however, it has not been considered advisable in the meantime to bring domestic servants and others into the scope of the legislation, but I can say that it would no doubt be to the decided advantage of domestic servants to form a union, and it would even be more helpful to the Government than otherwise for them to do so. We do not intend to discourage them in dointr that.” •_