EXEMPTION OPPOSED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 82, 17 January 1940, Page 4

EXEMPTION OPPOSED.

SLAUGHTERMEN AT ABATTOIR. MEN DESIRE TO ENLIST. (Per Press Association). AUCKLAND, January 16. In view of the fact that a number of slaughtermen at the Municipal Abattoir had made it known to the management that they wished to enlist, the City Council, at a special meeting, resolved to make formal application to the Placement Officer at ..Auckland that essential workers at the -abattoir should be placed on the same footing as freezing workers and debarred from military service. The Council’s decision is to be discussed by the men concerned at a meeting to-morrow. It was stated that men otherwise eligible for service overseas objected to the proposed exemption. They submitted that they were- not engaged in the vital export meat trade and that there were older men wlio could fill their places on the boards for the time being. UNANIMOUS RESOLUTION. AUCKLAND, This Day. A. stop-work meeting of the Auckland Municipal Abattoir employees this morning expressed resentment at the decision of the City Council to make formal application that essential workers in the abattoir should be placed on the same footing as freezing workers and debarred from military service. The men claimed that killing was falling off and that there will be a -lessened demand for local consumption. The meeting, which was largely attended, passed unanimously a resolution of protest at the council’s action and appointed a deputation to take.the matter up with the council immediately.