CALL FOR FREE LABOUR
TO END FREEZING WORKS “GO SLOW" ’’
EMPLOYERS’ DECISION
By Telegraph. —PttEss Association. Christchurch, January 15.
The seventh day of the freezing works “go slow” ended in the employers deciding to invite applications for free labour. A meeting -was held to-day between representatives of various farmers’ organisations arid of the Canterbury freezing companies. As a result the farmers’ organisations have undertaken to enrol men in the' event of any. stoppage occurring-at the works. _ . It is anticipated tliat notices will be posted at the works to-morrow, cancelling the previous notices reducing the output per man to four per hour and ordering the resumption .of the normal killing rate. It is stated that a union delegate left for the south to-day for tlie purpose of conferring with men employed at yarious works in the district affected.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 95, 16 January 1926, Page 7
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137CALL FOR FREE LABOUR Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 95, 16 January 1926, Page 7
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