Conciliation Council To Resume Sittings
WELLINGTON, Last Night (PA).— Any suggestion of a stoppage of work in Auckland milk-treating plants over the workers’ award claims, was removed this afternoon, said the Secretary of Labour (Mr. H. L. Bockett) answering an inquiry tonight. Mr. Bockett said an agreement had been reached for resumption of the Conciliation Council proceedings for a new award for the industry. The council would sit in Wellington, probably on January 13 and 14.
Reports from Palmerston North and Christchurch today were that strikes in milk-treating plants there were expected to coincide with those mooted in Auckland In pi o test at the delay in the settlement of claims entered on behalf of the workers by the New Zealand Dairy Factories Employees’ Union. These strike plans are now regarded as cancelled, because of the agreement reached by the national officials of the union 'Ol resumption of the Conciliation Council sittings.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 6 January 1949, Page 6
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