Brewery stoppage
Eighty Christchurch brewery workers decided to stop work all today when they met at lunch-time yesterday in protest against the Stabilisation of Remuneration Bill. The original proposal was that they should stop work for the remainder of yesterday, but a majority decided that this would be insufficient. More than 300 tannery workers and workers in other factories related to the freezing industry held a stop-work meeting at 8 a.m. yesterday and decided to stay out for the rest of the day. Christchurch flre-brigades-men on the day shift refused all routine duties yesterday for the first of three days, in protest against the bill; and all the city’s dental technicians met at the Canterbury Trades Hall in the first stopwork meeting they had held. Each meeting protested against the imposition of wage control without —to quote the dental technicians —“effective control over prices, profits, and other matters affecting the economy.”
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32562, 23 March 1971, Page 1
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