WORK REFUSED

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 31, 31 October 1932, Page 10

WORK REFUSED

Meat from Waingawa WATERSIDE HOLD-UP When asked to load p consignment of about 1500 freight carcases of frozen meat iigo the Commonwealth and Dominion Line motor-ship Port Gisborne, at Wellington on Saturday morning, tlie waterside workers ’ refused to handle the meat. No explanations were given, the men simply walking off the wharf, leaving it untouched. The consignment was from Thomas Borthwick and Sons’ Waingawa works, which are at present operating with free labour owing to the freezing workers’ dispute. The possibility of the men’s refusal to handle this non-union labour meat had been considered by the shipping company, and no attempt was made to induce the watersiders to handle it after their first refusal, the Port Gisborne sailing at noon on Saturday for Auckland to complete loading for London.