FREEZING INDUSTRY

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 106, 1 November 1926, Page 10

FREEZING INDUSTRY

SLAUGHTERMEN DIVIDED

AN INDECISIVE MEETING.

(By Telegraph.—Pres3 Association.)

HASTINGS, This Day.

A meeting of freezing workers yesterday seems to have proved more or less a fiasco. From, what can be gathered one thing seems to be outstanding, that the temper of the meeting was unmistakably in favour of . work. Mr. A. M'Leod, district, secretary, would disclose nothing whatever regarding the business transacted or the result of the meeting. It is unofficially reported, however, that it is proposed to hand in a notice of motion rescinding the original resolution and in favour of going to work. This extends a hope that things may even yet be smoothed over.

There was an attendance of only about ninety men at the meeting held a couple of Weeks ago, out of a roll, it is said, of 1000. The attendance yesterday, however, was easily four times that number.

It is stated that an effort is being made to prevent the holding of another meeting on the ground that the matter has gone out of the workers' control, and is now in the hands of tho Alliance of Labour. The situation at the three works this morning was very quiet, there being practically no applications for work, although the regular maintenance hands came on as usual. No picketing was observable. The trouble comes at a very critical time for the farmers, who want to lighten their holdings of. fat sheep in face of the dry weather and poor markets.