THE WESTFIELD DISPUTE

Evening Star, Issue 23128, 30 November 1938, Page 10

THE WESTFIELD DISPUTE

WILL MEN RETURN TO WORK 7 TO BE DECIDED BY SEDDET BALLOT [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, November 30. The 800 idle Westfield freezing workers will decide by secret ballot to-mor-row morning whether or not they will return to work. This was the decision reached at a further mass meeting this morning when tho failure of yesterday’s negotiations was discussed. It Is stated that if the vote is in favour of the men returning to work it will be put into effect only under protest, and that work will not be resumed until the following day. Immediate steps are to bo taken to refer the disputed clause in the award to tho Arbitration Court again by way of appeal against tho interpretation given by M" Gilraour, S.M. It is likely that the union will ask the court to remedy any defect which it might decide exists in tho award.

Mr W. E. Sill, secretary of the Freezing Workers’ Union, said to-day that the workers’ grievance was not only the result of Mr Gilmour’s decision but was also owing to the fact that because of pressure of work on the Arbitration Court they would be unable to have the matter rectified within reasonable time.