‘Black ban’ on rubber plant goods

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33869, 14 June 1975, Page 2

‘Black ban’ on rubber plant goods

A “black ban” has been placed on material processed by management staff during the month-long strike by rubber workers at Dunlop’s Woolston factory.

The material, which has been declared black by the Canterbury Rubber Workers’ Union, includes $30,000 worth of mattresses and rubber sheeting, swimming fins, cycle tyres, and footwear components.

The mattresses need to be covered before they can be sold to customers and the cycle tyres are stacked waiting to be taken to the finishing room for inspection. The staff processed the material during the last week of the strike in an attempt to stop it from “going off.” The president of the union (Mr C. A. Hanson) said last night that a further meeting would be held with the Dunlop management next week in an effort to “clean the slate.”

Church union. —• In the report of the address of the Bishop of Nelson (the Rt Rev. P. E. Sutton) to the Nelson Diocesan Synod on Thursday, the Bishop was reported as saying that the Bishop of Christchurch (the Rt Rev. W. A. Pyatt) moved the successful motion for readoption of the plan for church union in 1972. The year should have been 1974.