Labour policy on meat works
Under a Labour Government, a clear preference in financial help would be given to freezing works prepared to work on the cooperative principle, said the Labour Party spokesman on agriculture (Mr B. G. Barclay) at the Otago-Southland regional conference of the party.
Mr Barclay told the conference on Saturday that there should be an immediate requirement that all works have New Zealand boards of management, and
that there should be a carefully phased programme of eventual total New Zealand control.
Only by a radical restructuring of the industry could the perennial confrontation between management and unions be avoided, he said. Mr Barclay also said that there was a need for the works to be kept open for 12 months instead of seasonally. This would give workers security, commitment, and a chance to “put down roots in a settled community.”
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