"SEE IT THROUGH."

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 154, 3 July 1939, Page 8

"SEE IT THROUGH."

CHEMICAL WORKERS.

STRIKE A WEEK OLD.

I BOTH PARTIES HOLD MEETINGS Reaffirinations of th«ir inter.:ion to , '-ee the thin™ through thv timp.' , -were expre-sed to-day by worker*, whn are anion™ the 400 involved in the strike at the chemical manure work- a: Otahuhn West field and Te Papapa. The strike bepan a week ai'o to-day. following a stop-work meeting. The works concerned are : ho-f- of tie Challenge Phosphate Oiinp;, r; v. Limit«L C't.ihuliu; Keinptht>rne. l'r<v-v" ... I company's New Zealand Drun <-■ ;:ipanv Limited. We-tfield. and th'- T, i'apapa work- of the New Zeairtiid Farmers' Fertilizer tympany, Lii;:!;*.-j. The men held miorjual "im-i-iina , ? near the three premie.-, at 7.30 0'.;.. K this, in. and it is stated that .mother meeting wiil }>e held n-xt M..udav. The employers c-om-enivd are also ho!-iii!L' a further con fere no-:- : -day. The four acid plant- o: the I Company's works are Mill kept "oiim l.y a makeshift pant'. '■ ■•:: at the • ■ther two premises there U complete inactivity. WnrkoT« at on- of the r-'ants. whife exiire-ii::' the :ntf.ntio:i .if - e -'■■■"kers nr.t t.. th<-ir .hey ;hem-?elves did n.-.t kn.,«- v. hat was P inl - °n. The meeting '.hey attended th:-. niornins. they said. 'a*:ed about five 17.; nut.- and then t.roke up. Xh e men who made the stateiix-::: ~{\i\ t jj ev had heard .')-. information 1 * the jw-ition given the workers ar = the All they knew wa; that ;-.•• -.r-n ha,! -ai-i they'had ?iven in to the'en/blorers }jef.-..-e and that they were n-: frojag to make the same nii-*:ake ihi.- time. =