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FREEZINC WORKS EMPLOYEES. 1500 TO CEASE WORK. (Special to "The Guardian"). CHRISTCHURCH, May 18. • Within the next few weeks 1500 men employed in the freezing companies' works about Canterbury will be out of employment. That is the estimate of Mr H. C, Revell, secretary of the Canterbury Freezing Works and Related Trades Union, who stated this * morning that one hundred men had been put off on Saturday, the number including fifty from one works. The end of the shearing season was now at hand, he said, and heavy reductions were being made by all except one company. There were 1700 men emploved in the industry in Canterbury at present, and the majority of them would be out of employment. A few had other work they could turn to, he said, but the majority would be thrown on the labour market, 'with no savings to carry them on. "The men have had a particularly bad season," said Mr Revell. ;'Their averages have been exceptionally low/'. With the exception of one works the men had averaged a, weekly wage which was less than the present standard living wage.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 184, 19 May 1931, Page 4
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