F.O.L. WARNINGS ON WORKS STOPPAGES

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29791, 6 April 1962, Page 12

F.O.L. WARNINGS ON WORKS STOPPAGES

(New Zealand Press Association)

MASTERTON, April 5

A stern warning that individual gangs in the freezing industry cannot cause stoppages and expect the support of the Federation of Labour was issued by the secretary of the federation (Mr K. M Baxter) at Masterton last night. “There are fai too many such stoppages in the freezing industry,” said Mr Baxter. “One gang, such as slaughtermen, will stop work without consulting their fellow workers.

“The employers are making it very plain that they do not intend paying those workers who cannot work because of a stoppage in another department. "The men who cause such stoppages are taking, their fellow workers by the scruff of the ne“ and hurling them into an industrial struggle,” he said.

"Before there is any stoppage the dispute must be placed before all the men in the works If they consider the dispute should be supported it must then be

referred to the district union, for there are few disputes that cannot be settled without stoppages if properly handled. “Too many of the industrial troubles in the freezing industry are the results of efforts of individuals trying to make themselves big men in a small empire instead of taking their proper place as small men in a big empire,” said Mr Baxter