DAIRY FACTORIES
HOURS OF WORK THE COURT CRITICISED [Per Press association] HAWERA, Aug. 25. “In asking dairy factory employees to work 52 hours a week the Arbitration Court has let the workers down badly. It’s an outrage,” said Mr. James Ross, secretary of the Taranaki Dairy Factory Employees’ Union, when interviewed this morning relative to the schedule of working hours for dairy factories announced yesterday. “The Court has generously given a clause to factory workers for a 38-hour week from June 17 to August 13, when no one is employed. Some of the largest Taranaki cheese factories have not started cheese making yet.” Mr. Ross declared that the 40hour week would more easily be applied to butter than cheese factories It was ridiculous to say that a 40hour week could not be carried into effect. “When I say that, I'm not considering the cost but only the question of working it. The evidence by the employees in Wellington tended to show that a 40-hour week could bo worked efficiently.” The award does not yet apply to Taranaki workers, whose application for an award, including a 40hour week, has not yet come before the Court.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 201, 26 August 1936, Page 9
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