PROTECTING FARM WORKERS
-Press Association
3y Telegraph—
WELLINGTON, August 14. Alr. Clyde Oarr, in the House today, gave notice to aslc the Alinister of Labour whether he intends to promote further legislation during the xrresent session to protect agricultural workers from vietimisation and intimidation by employers, 111 the matters of holidays, accommodation, rates of wages in relation to costs of food supplied, and membership of their union. Alr. Carr said last week two cases arose in South Oanterbury to which one or more of these considerations was relevant. In one instance where a nrarried couple took fuurteen days holiday out of eighteen overdue, for which payment had been made but without the employer's explicit consent, the employer brolce into their liome with a crowhar, tossed their food and furniture into damp, rat-ridden slieds, starved their fowls and installed a fresli tenant. The couple, with two young children, were being given slielter in their 5-roomed cottage by foster parents on the age. henelit.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 August 1946, Page 5
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