DAIRY FACTORIES WORK AS USUAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5283, 20 December 1946, Page 6

DAIRY FACTORIES WORK AS USUAL

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UNION INSTRUCTION MEN'S DEMANDS BEING FULLY DISCUSSED

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HAMILTON, Last Night. ""w. aikato dairy faetori es~~ are working as iisual to-day. No definite information was available yesterday whether the factories would he working to-day, but the dairy factory workers have been advised by telegraph by the national council of the union to continue to work pendmg further notice. Representatives of the men are still in Wellington, where further meetings of the council are bein§f held to eonsider developments in the uispute. A Press Asscciation message from Wellington stated that the national secretary of the union, Mr. L. D. Robertson, of Auckland, said tha1 the council met yesterday and would meet again to-day to eonsider the developments in the dispute over wages and conditions in the factories. Use of Order-in-Council There has been diseussion concerning the Government's right to introduce an Order-in-Council allowing additional penal rates for Sunday work i.i dairy factories at a time when the workers' claims were subject to Conciliation proceedings. The Order-in-Council, which was | announced on Monday, revoked Modification Order 2/1936 in so far as it piovided that dairy factories and creameries would be exempt from icrtain seetions of the Factories' Amendment Act, which made special provisions in respect of dairy factories' rates of wages payable for holi:ays and Sundays. In lieu of these ]• rovisions the modificaticn order provided that workers employed on holidays or Sundays sTuwlil be paid half rates in addition to their ordinary rau: of j)ay. The modification order was made under Scction 47 of ihe Finance Act, j 1936. The Act gives power to the ! Govemor-General to modify provisj ions of ihe Factories' Amendment Act | and states that any Order-in-Council i under Fection 17 may be amended or i revoked at any time.