Felling Gangs Join State Forest Strike
(NX. Press Association) ROTORUA, Oct. 30. The strike of men engaged on thinning work in Kaingaroa Forest today spread to gangs felling timber.
About 60 men joined a .thinning force of more than 100 who decided to stop work on Friday, after proposals for settlement offered by the For•st Service were rejected. Timber supplies to Waipa State Mill, just south of Rotorua. are threatened by the stoppage and the flow of logs for export to Japan is likely to dwindle if it persists. The men, all members of the Timber Workers’ Union, have formed strike commit-
tees. Union members employed!
Iby the Kaingaroa Logging Company, Murupara, today decided unanimously to support the stoppage.
The stoppage concerns the condition of workers’ transport in the large State forest. FIRST STRIKE PAY
At Auckland today the 200 strikers at the engineering plant of Mason Bros., Ltd, got their first strike pay. Each received 85 from money collected at various job meetings they have addressed in the city.
They have been on strike since October 12 in protest over 32 of their number being dismissed on redundancy grounds. The Federation of Labour iis now handling the workers’ lease.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31514, 31 October 1967, Page 30
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