FREEZING DISPUTE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 133, 2 December 1926, Page 8

FREEZING DISPUTE

AGREEMENT REACHED

TO APPLY FOR NEW AWARD

MEN TO ACCEPT WORK AT ONCE.

The Conciliation Commissioner for tho North Island (Mr. P. Hally) reported that an agreement had been reached 10-day at the conference between tlie

representatives of the freezing companies and of the Freezing Workers' Union, at which he presided, that a joint application be made immediately by the parties to the Arbitration Court for a. new award to supersede the existing award, which does not expire until June, and that if the Arbitration Court should amend the rates of wages such alteration, if any, be made retrospective, as far as possible, to the Ist December. It was also agreed that the men should be instructed forthwith to accept engagement at all works.

The employers were represented ;it the conference by Sir Francis Boys (New Zealand Refrigerating Company, Canterbury), and Messrs. J. Milne (Wellington Meat Export Company), T. Simpson (Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company), F. S. Candy (Hawkes Bay Farmers' Freezing Company), J. T. Rogerson (Longburn Freezing Company), W. H. Tripe (Gear Meat Company), D. Allan (Wairarapa Frozen Meat Company), C. G. Wilken (secretary of the South,lsland Freezing Companies' Association), and F. B. Sanderson (secretary of tho North Island Freezing Companies' Association)The workers were represented by Messrs. H. C. Revcll (secretary of the Now Zealand .Freezing Workers' Fed'cration), A. M'Leod (Wellington), T. C. Ellis (Canterbury), A. Baker (Wellington), J. Hutchinson (president of the Freezing Workers' Federation), E. Sicl (Auckland), J. Millburn (Otago and Southland), and A. Hudson (Poverty Bay).