DAIRYING LABOR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 30 May 1907, Page 2

DAIRYING LABOR.

To the Editor. .Sir -While in full sympathy with the views ill' your correspondent "Dairy Factory Kmploycc" conccrnim; (In. mireasonableness of (lie farm. ■ hi- demands upon the time of lr :■ : ,vees, m (hat his is ti' . : .-si' neglected class of labor in tli ■ mutter ~f legislation in the colony, laid as his case undoubtedly is, lie has overlooked the I ;irin laboring class, which largely outnumbers ami are infinitely greater Mill'ercrs in respect; of tiours 'than his. and whose hours, as everybody knows. 1:1 'i,~c I rum II!) pel' week in summer I namely, from :i a.m. till S p.m., Nun j days and holidays included) to 01 in tile full dinner hour even seldom liein" allowed, and that for wa«cs. inclusive of lioai'd. totalling from L».« to :i()s per week, cost lo the farmer, lodging in the, proper sens,, of the term, not beimr pro-' >'ided at :i 11, although. of course, it is one of (he terms of (he engagement. Nor, I fear. Mill it ever lie otherwise until there is legislation to enforce it. Surely a I'J-hour dav. from (i till (i, or St hours a week, with payment for overtime before and after, ought to he considered a fair thine'. Why not inspectors in the farm laboring interest, in common with all other industries? What conditions could possibly be more hru- | talUing than to apply all one's working liours (0 brute labor?—T am, etc,, KAR3I LABOURER