‘ONE OFF, ALL OFF’ AT TASMAN MILL

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31230, 30 November 1966, Page 18

‘ONE OFF, ALL OFF’ AT TASMAN MILL

i.Vew Zealand Preti Aisociatton> AUCKLAND, November 29. The Tasman Pulp and Paper Company’s mill at Kawcrau will be silent tomorrow.

Eleven hundred hourly paid workers have refused to work after the company laid off some men today because there was no work for them.

The company was forced into this move through the strike of 450 pulp and paper workers, now in its sixteenth day.

Today the committee of the combined unions at the plant told the management "one off, all off” after men in the wood room and sawmill at Mount Maunganui and others were laid off.

An attempt to get talks going again today between the strikers’ federation, the Northern Federation of Woodpulp. Paper and Paper Products’ Workers, and the management, failed when the federation’s representatives did not turn up, but they will meet at 9.30 a.m. tomorrow. Strike Settlement

A meeting of Auckland officials of the unions, to which the 1100 men belong, and the president of the Federation of Labour, Mr T. Skinner, has been called for tomorrow. Meanwhile, the strike at

New Zealand Forest Products plants at Kinleith, Whakatane. Otahuhu and Penrose is all but over.

Mr K. Glendining, secretary of the New Zealand federation, said the settlement was agreed to by the men this morning. Men at Whakatane, Kinleith and Penrose would be at work tomorrow.

He added that they had not got all they wanted, but what they had got was a “breakthrough.” The new agreement provided for 4d to fid an hour increase, small increases in services allowances, and a shift increase of 2s 2d per shift. Payment was made retrospective to September 25.