FREEZING TROUBLE

Evening Star, Issue 21254, 8 November 1932, Page 6

FREEZING TROUBLE

EXTENSION TO BURNSIDE WORKS LABOUR DECLINED BY CASUAL EMPLOYEES The trouble in the freezing industry has spread to Otago, casual workers at Burnside having declined to accept the new rates of wages and conditions. Although work was offering, the men failed to arrive at the New Zealand Refrigerating Company’s plant yesterday morning. Fertiliser workers and butchers to the number of sixteen declined work, and the permanent hands, totalling seven, are killing bobby calves for export and stock for local consumption. Burnside is affected now in the same way as Canterbury, but on a smaller scale. The hold-up is not as serious at this stage as it would have been if staged at the end of December, when lamb and mutton killing for export would have been in full swing. Owing to the early season, killing will probably commence at Christmas, a week earlier than in past years. FINEGAND HOT AFFECTED [From Oub Correspondent,] BALCLUTHA, November 8. Finegand is not affected. The old agreement lapsed on July 31, but remains in force until new arrangements are drawn up. A meeting of the Conciliation Council was held in October, but nothing definite was arrived at. The position will bo settled before the killing season opens, probably early in the new year. WATERSIDE PARTICIPATION LAMB WILL MISS CHRISTMAS MARKET [Per United Press Association.] NAPIER, November 7. The Hawke’s Bay lamb will miss the Christmas market in England as a result of the waterside workers to-day refusing to load the moat on the Tainui. The men had agreed last week to load the Tainui, but, for some reason not stated, declined to work to-day. The meat had been loaded into lighters early this morning, and when a call was made for labour to transfer it to the Tainui in the roadstead there was no response.