FREEZING WORKS TO SEEK FREE LABOUR.
(BI TEIEOBAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
CHEISTCHUBCH, 15th Jan. The seventh day of the freezing works "go slow" ended in the «m----ployera deciding to invite applications for free labour. A meeting was held to-day between representatives of various farmers' organisations and 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 that noticea 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 Btated that a union delegate left for the South to-day for the purpose of conferring with men employed at various works in the district affected.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1926, Page 7
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