Still no solution to meat dispute

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33610, 12 August 1974, Page 2

Still no solution to meat dispute

. (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 11. A 13-week-old ban by the New Zealand Meatworkers’ Union on the loading out of meat intended for South Island cool stores not worked by its members is still in force.

The ban continues inspite of the Federation of Labour having undertaken to solve the dispute. The ban was the latest in a series of demarcation disputes between the meatworkers and the Cool Store Workers’ Union over handling containers, which both unions claim the right to work. The meatworkers’ secretary (Mr F. E. McNulty) announced the ban during the F.O.L.’s annual conference in May and it became a “test case” for new measures hammered out during the con-

ference to solve the disputes. However, after more than three months, the ban was still in effect tonight and the secretary of the F.O.L. (Mr W. J. Knox) said there were no new developments. Until now the ban has had little effect. But it is clear that the dispute will have to

be resolved before the new killing season, which begins soon. It is believed that in spite of handing the dispute over to the F.0.L., the Minister of Labour (Mr Watt) is now making moves to have it cleared up as soon as possible. The manager of the South Canterbury Co-operative Cool Stores, Ltd (Mr P. Dalrymple) said today he was hopeful of some sort of solution before the new season began.