WESTFIELD DISPUTE
More Serious Aspect (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 1. With the beef shacklers at Westfield Freezing Works rejecting the offer of the employers in reply to fheir demand for increased wages and subsequent negotiations today ending in a deadlock, the dispute has assumed a more serious aspect. The beef slaughtering floor, on which about 80 butchers and labourers are normally employed, was idle for the third successive day and the company made arrangements to turn out to paddocks 1500 cattle which had accumulated in stock-pens.
Repercussions of the dispute are stated to have occurred at the Horotiu and Southdown works of the Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Company, Limited, where it is said that the beef butchers have refused to slaughter and handle any cattle on behalf of W. and R. Fletcher, Limited, owners of the Westfield works. Stock from that company is normally handled at Horotiu find Southdown throughout the season and there is said to be no suggestion that stock carried ovef from the Westfield dispute is being diverted to these cstablisbments.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 210, 2 June 1944, Page 6
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