Strike in Dairy Factory.
During tive psaitwo or three- Weeks an tgitation/'.ii' been in progress to gat tha casual hands at sevand South TStranAWi cheese factories < to demand an incraAeeof wage®, or in the alternative to oea«e work. At all tba factories but one libe proposal was rejected, ud libamea decided tp*e?aain at work. At fiiverd&le, however, the <tan casual hemdspweMitad'tt "«wmd robin'' to tha .{tirectox# demanding an increase of wages from 11a ; to 12ep<w day. Tha directors .met and declined to accede to the demand, whereupon &e whole of tiba cMuaV.lhfljidßrgaTW no--"tioo of tfaeir inteirfai<m,.t© leare work in a week'a t?ma. ■ They wentout on Friday morning laafc, and yendiiigAiie arrival <tf other caau®l kaadawhoweceooi ming from Wellington and Nefeon, several of the directors and «uppl»are tolunteered to ■carry on the work at iflw factory and.tibe Cbmpany-badexperi-encecb no difficulty in ; getting Jfchrougfr the wort alnoa'ih* left. The pw sent rata of j*y? for caeu&lcagreed upon by practdosJly aUitWTarawdcifaotorie* is 10i p«r day,; ptoj* la per day war bonus, iuod the usual 1 allowance or buttar, mine, coal, firewood, etc., pro bably worth another Si». per day. -
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 5 November 1918, Page 4
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186Strike in Dairy Factory. Levin Daily Chronicle, 5 November 1918, Page 4
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