GOING SLOW
Bimißc REFRIGERATING WORKS SLAUGHTERMEN'S DISPUTE Since about midday on Monday killing at the New Zealand Refrigerating Company’s Burnside works has been done under the go-slow principle owing to a dispute between the slaughtermen and the company. Sheep and lambs are being killed at tho works at a rate of not more than two animals an hour. It is said that tho men’s coarse has been followed to show their sympathy with an Australian sloughtenuan who has not been able to secure work at Burnside, where some seasons ago lie was employed. On an average the slaughtermen at ordinary times each kill from eighty to ninety sheep and lambs (mixed) per day, and can Kill over K)0 a day. Fat sheep, lambs, and store cattle are affected bv the dispute. A lew “beef butchers” are at the works in addition to the mutton butchers.
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Evening Star, Issue 19520, 30 March 1927, Page 8
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145GOING SLOW Evening Star, Issue 19520, 30 March 1927, Page 8
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