FREEZING DISPUTE
“Free” Labour at Waingawa SATISFACTORY WORK ' Dominion Special Service. Jlasterton, Oct. 31. Union slaughtermen are still reto ing to accept work at Thos. Borthwick and Sons’ Waingawa works, and kUUn„ is proceeding with “free labour. The company has now increased the number of non-union hands employed to about 20, and it is stated that the work being done by these men is quite satisfaAn amount of stock is now coming forward, and as the season progresses more men will necessarily have to be engaged. There is no lack of applicants for jobs. WILL NOT HANDLE MEAT New Plymouth Watersiders By Telegraph—Press Association. , New Plymouth, Oct. 31. When loading operations began this morning on the liner Norfolk the waterside workers accepted the call, but refused to touch meat from Waitara on the ground that it had been handled by non-unionists in the works. The mea,. was railed back to Waitara. The loading of dairy produce on both the Norfolk and the Tainui continues without interruption. The Norfolks meat allotment was 20,300 carcases, all from Waitara.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 32, 1 November 1932, Page 10
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176FREEZING DISPUTE Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 32, 1 November 1932, Page 10
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