SLAUGHTERMEN IDLE
TROUBLE AT VESTEYS’
WORKS By Telegraph—Press Association. Cisborne, December 4. When Vesteys’ recently-acquired freezing works * opened yesterday some trouble arose with the slaughtermen, who, under thb old regime, had been receiving 2s. 6d. per hundred in addition to the award rate, on account of it being country work, some of the men having their homes m town and travelling twfelve miles from town each day. The management advised that the old arrangement no longer existed, and that it was not prepared to pay in advance of the award, especially as plenty of good accommodation for the workmen existed at the works, where fifteen of thirty slaughtermen are already in residence. No agreement being come to, work was not commenced, and a large num. her of men are idle.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 60, 5 December 1923, Page 6
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