COOL STORES

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 75, 9 January 1941, Page 2

COOL STORES

UNION DISCUSSES DISPUTE.

NO CHANGE IN POSITION.

(Per Press Association). AUCKLAND, January S

Tho position of 140 chamber-hands who were, dismissed last Friday hy the Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Com pany, Ltd., was raised when a meeting of representatives of the Auckland Freezing "Workers’ and Related Trades Union was called to dismiss the situation with the employers to-day. It was stated to-night that no change in the position of the men resulted from tho meeting.

Five waterside workers who walked off their jobs on Monday and Tuesday when asked to handle butter and cheese, from the Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Company’s cool stores were reinstated on the waterfront to-day. The position of the men, who suffered the usual penalty of being stood down for two days, or, as in this case, for the duration of the job on which they were engaged at the time of dismissal, will bo investigated by the Waterfront Control'Commission. A two-hour stop-work meeting of waterside workers. was held this morning, when, after domestic problems had been discussed, questions were asked about tho attitude of the union to the cool store dispute. The secretary of the union (Mr A. Girven) was asked to call a meeting of the executive, which was held in the afternoon, hut adjourned until full details of the dispute and a representative attitude of freezing workers throughout the province could be ascertained from the Auckland Freezing workers and Related Trades Union. No statement about the discussion at the stop-work meeting or at the special executive meeting was made bv the Waterside Workers’ Union.