MILK ROUNDSMEN’S ACTION

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 187, 4 May 1940, Page 12

MILK ROUNDSMEN’S ACTION

Pace Restricted To Smart Walk SLIGHT DELAY IN SOME CASES (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 3. Milk roundsmen in Auckland put into effect to’day a ‘decision made at a union meeting on Thursday to start work not earlier than 2.30 a.m. and to make their deliveries at a smart walking pace, without running, as they claimed was often necessary in tlie past. The action, which was officially denied as a “go slow” move, has been taken as a protest against the alleged possibility of men having to deliver greater quantities of milk and start half an hour earlier each day under the proposed zoning scheme. In isolated cases milk 'deliveries suffered a slight, delay. In the city and suburbs this morning only a limited number of customers always served near the end of some of the largest rounds were inconvenienced by the late arrival of their supplies. Two of the largest milk vending firms reported that none of their roundsmen returned to the depots any later than usual.

“It is deplorable that the union sboul'd take action on hearsay statements alleged to have been made by someone connected with the milk trade,” said the chairman of tlie Milk Council, Mr. I. J. Goldstine. “If it had approached the Milk Council the union would have ascertained that up to the present tlie council has never discussed gallonage to be served under the zoning scheme, nor has it ever laid down what gallonage must 'bo delivered by a roundsman.”