FREEZING WORKS STRIKE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25364, 11 December 1947, Page 6

FREEZING WORKS STRIKE

NO DEVELOPMENTS YESTERDAY COMPANY’S VIEWS ON • DISPUTE (P.A.) AUCKLAND, December 10. Although the strikers had been in touch with the Labour Department to Wellington, no developments occurred to-day in the dispute at the Otahuhu freezing works of R. and W. Hellatar. Ltd., which have been at a standstill since Monday. No negotiations have so far been entered into directly between the men and the employers. A representative of the company seid to-day that press statements had tended to confuse the position. The merit of shipping veal, unboned or otherwise, was not a question at issue. However, in the experience of the company it was better from the point of view of condition of the meat on arrival to the United Kingdom that bobby veal carcases should be shipped in an unboned condition. Bobby veal carcases Vte ls ® lll ® unboned condition recenty had been loaded out from another Auckland works and shipped. It was the repeated refusal of the company's men to do likewise which was the cause of their suspension. The representative admitted that another company had boned its shipment of bobby calves. . issue is this—who is to decide now the meat, for which the company is wholly responsible, is to be treated and shipped? A he added. .. A suggestion had been made that the company was shipping 1500 car™esjw2thout authority. There apK?«f d somc confusion on this pcuut, as these 1500 carcases were not m dispute. r ®p rcse ntative of the workers said < were adhering to their the shipping or unbbned carcases was a waste of valuable shipping space.