Milk Plant Workers To Keep Going
WELLINGTON, Jan. 5. Any suggestiqn of a stoppage of work in the Auckland milk treating plants over workers * award claims, was reuioved this afternoon, said the Secre lary of Labour, Mr. H. L. Boekett, when answermg an inquiry tonight. \tr. Boekett said an agreement had l)een reached for the resumption of Conciliation Council proceedings for a new award for the industrf. The conn -il would sit in Wellington probably on January 13 and 14. Reports from Palmerston North and Christchurch today were that strikes in the milk treating plants there were expected to coincide with those mooted in Auckland, in protest at the delay in the settlement of claims entered or, hehn.lf of the workers by the New Zealand Dairy Factofy Employees' Union. These strike plans are ,now regarded as cancelled because of the agreement reached by national officials of the union for the resumptiohi of Conciliation Council sittings.
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 January 1949, Page 5
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