MAY BE SERIOUS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 107, 2 November 1926, Page 10

MAY BE SERIOUS

FREEZING WORKERS' DISPUTE

TAKEN OVER BY ALLIANCE OF

LABOUR

SLAUGHTERMEN'S DEMANDS,

Unless a speedy settlement of the claims of the slaughtermen for increases in wages is reached there is a prospect that the trouble will develop.

Inquiries made locally to-day confirm tho report from Hawkes Bay yesterday that the dispute has been placed in the hands of the Alliance of Labour. It is understood that this action was taken owing to the failure of the efforts of the Slaughtermen '3 Federation to secure a conforenco at which tho claims of the men could be discussed.

It is stated that the objections to granting increases in wages do not come so much from the farming community as from certain of the larger meat freezconcerns, but that if the farmers undertake to carry out killing operations at tho works in the event of there being a shortage of the usual union labour, it is not unlikely that tho dispute will havo repercussions overseas, as certain action may be.taken in so far as the handling and sale of New Zoaland meat at Home is concerned.

It was further stated that the dispute had really been inaugurated last year, but that this year strenuous efforts would be exerted to have tho men's claims considered.