FREEZING WORKERS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 197, 18 May 1936, Page 14

FREEZING WORKERS

Reorganisation Movement At a meeting of the Canterbury District Council of the New Zealand Alliance of Labour, at Christchurch, consideration was given to the question of the reorganising of tbe men employed in the freezing industry throughout the Dominion into one organisatiou. It was felt that the workers injhis industry should be completely organised in order that they may be in a position to secure an agreement covering their wages ami conditions of employment in line with those enjoyed b.v tile seamen, watersiders and other sections of the organised trade union movement. A motion approving the action of the president of the Alliance of Labour, Mr. L. Glover, in assisting to organise the workers employed in the freezing industry in the Canterbury industrial district, was passed unanimously. Tribute was. paid by several of the members of the district council to Mr. Glover for his work in assisting Mr. G. Kilpatrick, secretary of the Canterbury Freezing Workers’ Union. The executive of the Canterbury Freezing Workers’ Union expects to meet the employers in conference in the nenr future for an agreement covering wages and conditions of employment for their memliers. and will receive the co-opera-tion ami of the Alliance of Labour.