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FREEZING DISPUTE CONFERENCE ADJOURNS TILL TODAY LABOURERS’ WAGES AND CHAIN SYSTEM \ • (PRKSS ASSOCIATION TEVEGBAi!.) WELLINGTON, January 21. After nearly 12 hours’ discussion of conditions, arising from the recent “stay-in” at Auckland, the freezing workers’ special conference, at Parliament House to-day. failed to reach agreement. It was decided at a late hour to adjourn until the morning, in order to receive a report from a special committee set up to consider the final points. Some 50 delegates attended, representing all the employers and workers in the industry throughout New Zealand. The Government was represented by the Minister for Labour (the Hon. H. T. Armstrong) and the Minister for Agriculture (the Hon. W. Lea Martin). ' The conference opened at 10.30 a.m.. and was continued throughout the day and evening, there, being a protracted discussion of the contentious questions of labourers’ wages in freezing works and the number of operatives on the chain system.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21997, 22 January 1937, Page 10
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