Freezing Workers Plan March

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31981, 7 May 1969, Page 32

Freezing Workers Plan March

(New Zealand Press Association)

PALMERSTON NORTH, May 6.

Killing will stop at the Longburn freezing works on Thursday while several hundred workers march in Wellington to Parliament Buildings.

At least eight bus-loads of Longburn workers will go to the capital, according to the president of the Wellington Freezing Workers’ Union (Mr F. B. Thom), who said today that the union would not be asking men from the Ngauranga works, in Wellington, to join the march, although they had offered their support, , Men would be on duty at the Longburn works to keep

running such essential services as the boiler-houses. The marchers would be addressed on the steps of Parliament Buildings, where a resolution asking the Minister of Labour (Mr Shand) to invoke the section of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act dealing with lockouts, would be put to them. After that, a deputation would be received by the Minister.

The deputation would also ask Mr Shand to revoke the Co-operative Wholesale Society’s meat export slaughterhouse licence and give it to the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative, which, Mr Thorn said, would be willing to work Longburn.