FREEZING WORKERS' DISPUTE

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21991, 15 January 1937, Page 8

FREEZING WORKERS' DISPUTE

TO THE KDVI'OH OF TUF. MESS. Sir, —The secretary of the Canterbury Freezing Workers' Union said today that his union was in complete sympathy with the men in Auckland and the step they had taken to secure a revision of the award. I would like to know where he got that opinion from. The works in Canterbury have hardly started yet, and are only running on skeleton staffs. Was not Mr Kilpatrick elected secretary by the loyal workers, in the related trades section of the Freezing Workers' Union, numbering about 100? Has Mr Kilpatrick got the confidence of the workers in the seven works in Canterbury, with about 2500 workers? Before making any -Further statements I would advise Mr Kilpatrick to wait till the works get going full time and all the men are able to have a vote. The freezing works in the North Island have had their season, and a good one. too; but most of the Canterbury men have had to exist on sustenance for the last six months. As an old hand in the freezing industry, I would like to point out to free labourers, who manned the works in the late strike, that we have the same National Council now as we had before and during the strike. Why these gentlemen have organised, appealed, and pleaded with true Labour to get the union going again makes me think there must be a nigger in the woodpile somewhere.—Yours, etc., OIL AND WATER. January 14, 1937.