“AN OUTRAGE”
DAIRY FACTORY AWARD. HAWERA, Tuesday. “In asking dairy factory employees to ivork a 52-liour week the Arbitration Court let the workers 1 down badly. It is an outrage,” said Mr James Ross, secretary of the Taranaki Dairy Factory Employees ’ Union, when inter-' viewed this morning regarding the schedule of working hours for dairy factories, announced yesterday. * “The court has generously given a clause for factory workers to work a 38-hour week when no one is employed. Some of the largest Taranaki cheese factories have not started cheese making yet,” he said. Mr Ross declared that a 40-hour week could more easily be applied to butter than cheese factories, but it was ridiculous to say that a 40-hour week could not be carried into effect. “When I say that I am not considering cost, but only the question of working. The evidence produced by the employees in Wellington tended to show that a 40hour week could be worked efficiently.” The award does not yet -apply to Taranaki workers, whose application for an award, including a 40-hour week, has not yet come before the court. —(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 August 1936, Page 8
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