RESUMPTION AT WAINGAWA.
FREE LABOUR ENGAGED. (By Teligrapii.—Press Association.) MASTERTON, this day. The slaughter board at the Waingawa Freezing Works was manned yesterday by eighteen volunteer butchers. "All the slaughtermen who were paid off on Wednesday reported for work yesterday, with the offer of resumption oil the condition that a number of men said to have been listed as ineligible for re-employment were taken on. These terms were apparently unacceptable, as the men ail returned to town. The union has so, far taken no part in this dispute, which evidently will be confined to the slaughtermen, as all other departments are proceeding under normal conditions. The management stated last evening that there were sufficient men available to cope with the stock in hand and that which was likely to be coming in.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 5, 7 January 1927, Page 5
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