NO SETTLEMENT
WESTFIELD DISPUTE
SHACKLERS RETURN HOME
No further progress towards a settlement of the dispute between the management of Westfield freezing works and the beef shacklers was reported to-day. This morning, men employed on the beef sla"Shtering floor arrived at work, but returned home from about 9 a.m. onW The shacklers, who are requesting higher wages for work in the knocKing pit, are being supported in tneir demands by the beef butchers and assistants. On various days last week, it was expected that a settlement would be reached, but, despite appeals by the conciliation commissioner, Mr. C. L. Hunter, and an offer by the management, which is understood to have represented an increase in the shacklers' wages, the men remained firm to their original demands. To-day is the sixth successive working day that no work has been done on the slaughtering floor.
Operations in other departments at the works are proceeding normally. The secretary of the Butchers Union, Mr. W. E. Sill, who visited the works this morning, was unable to offer any information regarding his discussions with the men.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 132, 6 June 1944, Page 6
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