VOLUNTEER LABOUR

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 81, 5 April 1930, Page 8

VOLUNTEER LABOUR

SLAUGTHERING TO GO ON

SOUTH OTAGO DISPUTE (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") DUNEDIN, This Day. At a meeting of the directorate of the South Otago Freezing Company it was decided, in view of the large offerings of stock for killing, not to keep tho works closed until a settlement of tho dispute with the union, but to reopen the works with volunteer slaughtermen and labourers. Farmers' sons and men with butchering experience responded readily, and killing was resumed yesterday morning with twenty-ono volunteer slaughtermen. Men are still coming in, and it is expected that a full, board of thirtyone butchers will, be operating on Monday. ■ - . -<.■:■■■ -'■■-■■■■ '■■' The company has given an undertaking that the services of these men.will be retained for the remainder of the season. The volunteers are all quite capable of killing solo, and though the company was quite prepared to inaugurate a team system of killing it was not considered necessary to do so. The management regards tho work so far as quite up 'to standard. The farmers of the district are loyally supporting the works in the crisi3, and the action of the regular slaughtermen is very unpopular locally. Sheep aro being rushed to the works to-day by; motor-lorry. ,