DAIRY FACTORY WORKERS' AGREEMENT.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 July 1916, Page 3

DAIRY FACTORY WORKERS' AGREEMENT.

Jolin Robertson, ex-M.P. for Otaki writes as follows:— "Congratulations to Organizer Hunter and the others. The A.P.tl. has made one big strike towards the goal. To havo organized the dairy factory workers in the Wellington Province and to have fixed up ati industrial agreement are notable achievements. The agreement itself, 1 don't regard with the eaino optimism shown iby Hunter in last week's "Worker.' There are some we;vk points in it, and in the mattor of hours it is no improvement on tho Arbitration Court's award of 1010. However, criticism is cheap, and I'm not on ti it. The intrinsic value of the agreement and its weaknesses also will reveal themselves in due course. To have those workers organized as a ill finite part of the organized Labour' movement of Now Zealand is the important thing. There is Homo thing on which the officials of the A.P.U. and the movement as a ivhole is entitled to congratulate itself. I want to talk to Hunter though. If he will come next time wTien lie. is in these parts and look me up in my oily den, I'll tell him things. I smiled at the glimpse he give*) us of the country workers' attitude towards the appeal to organize. I've been there so very often myself: Bti?M it has been done, and Hunter has done it. But where is he now? Taranaki shouldi be hia tome all this month, then Waikato and Auckland if the season does not Btop operations. There never was such an opportunity before; the country workers inre at (last coming in. Tlie weak link in the chain of Labour organization in iNew 'Zealand is being strengthened. Good luck."