DISPUTE ABOUT BONER’S HAIR
/N.Z. Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, June 15. More than 300 beef workers at the Waitara freezing works of Borthwick and Sons, Ltd, went home today after a dispute about long hair. The men stopped work In support of a boner who was suspended for the day after the head foreman ruled the boner’s hair infringed regulations. They will return to work tomorrow.
The secretary of the Waitara Freezing Workers’ Union (Mr P. D. Greenlees) said the boner was asked yesterday to wear a hairnet because of long hair.
The boner had never wom a net, and resented being asked to wear one.
He decided to leave work and have his hair cut. Mr Greenlees said when the boner returned to begin work today he was told he was suspended for the rest of the day. Other boning-floor staff considered the suspension unjust. Mr Greenlees said there were inconsistencies in the incident. “Even after the man had a haircut, the head foreman insisted he still wear a net,” he said. The matter was referred to representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture, and they considered the man’s hair length was a border-line case, and suggested he have a further half-inch removed. The boner agreed to this.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33253, 16 June 1973, Page 2
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