FREEZING INDUSTRY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 18, 16 October 1918, Page 8

FREEZING INDUSTRY

j'THE AUSTRALIAN -INVASION. i.During its annual confe'rence held in Wellington' last week the national recutive of the' Freezers' Union, ieresenting all the men in the freezing nd-.alliea.'trades : from Whangarei, to Jiiff,v;passe4: tho following :•— j,»"That:jh;the opinion of the national -workers should not be w-nt Vto camp v and their places taken by jiietralians," ■ j "That this executive is confident that i- view of the limited storage space railable there are ample men available ) carry on work without bringing men :O.m Australia." fit is understood in some quarters lat the employers generally do not ?sire to employ the Australians if they in; get through the season patisfneinly without their services. In faot, ie company is eaid to have had quite ! lot of trouble with them last year. ■■ This -point was' very carefully con.'dered at the conference, and it was wth'the limited' storage >mmodation there will be ample Nc" ealand labour to carry on through tho iason. A £ood deal of feeling was ex-ressed-at the conference that married fan with two children are being sent jtocainp wlu'le Australians are coming rer to take their places in the works, ilt is'pointed out that there has teen j impression existent in the, past that lly slaughtermen were concerned, hereas other departments in the trade fe, equally concerned. In certain work le-Australians are eaid to have creatI a little, monopoly; made the work leir exclusive' property, shutting cut ew Zealanders who previously . eniged in the work. This more espeoijys applies 'to work formerly under[keri'by older men, but subsequently Ikenup ,by. the Australians on the intrant'-system.