STOP-WORK MEETING
Dispute Over Dismissal
Five hundred workers at the Montreal Street factory of Lane Walker Rudkin, Ltd, will bold a stop-work meeting on Monday afternoon to discuss the dismissal of one of the factory’s employees. The Canterbury WoollenWorkers’ Union felt that the man was wrongfully dismissed, and would take the matter before the Conciliation Commissioner (Mr S. Armstrong), said the union's secretary (Mr G. S. Ray) last evening. A director of Lane Walker Rudkin (Mr F. C. Riley) said last evening that the matter had been investigated by the Labour Department whidh had assured him verbally that the dismissal was justified. Mr Ray said that about two weeks ago the temperature in a work-room at the factory was recorded by workers at 101 degrees. One man, Mr Colin Marshall, was overcome by the heat and about 2 p.m. left the factory for this reason. When he arrived for work the next day his pay was made up and he was dismissed. The same afternoon two other men working in another room where the temperature reached 90 degrees also felt overcome by the heat and left the factory. They were not dismissed, said Mr Ray.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31548, 9 December 1967, Page 14
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