DAIRY FACTORY WORKERS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1088, 29 March 1911, Page 10

DAIRY FACTORY WORKERS.

.UNION SECRETARY INTERVIEWED, Jlr. J. Robertson, secretary of the .Dairy .Factory Workers' Union for the Wellington and Taranaki provinces, speaking to a Hawcra "Star" reporter, mentioned that the present arrangement comes to an end shortly, and explained tho position from the employees point of view. Twelve months ago last January the .Taranaki Dairy Factory. Workers' Union was registered under tlje Arbitration ■ Act. Subsequently the representatives of the union mot tho Conciliation Board, and tho men wero induced to accept the award ruling in the Wellington province, which meant tho reduction of wages ruling in Taranaki. Mr. Robertson said that if tho Employees' Union were again registered under the Arbitration Act they would havo to go before tho Arbitration Court. By doing so tho workers would not better their position; by remaining unregistered the . workers, he held, would bo more free. He said the negotiations were in progress for a new agreement," but he was hot in a position to give any information on tho matter, cxcept that ho thought the deadlock over tho employees not registering .would be overcome. It is reported that a pen of weaner calves by an imported Holstein bull brought j£s 3s. per heacj at Rajiotu yards, Taranaki, ...