WORK REFUSED

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 957, 23 November 1926, Page 5

WORK REFUSED

LOCAL FREEZERS OUT NO RESPONSE TO CALL BY VOLUNTEER LABOUR Local butchers, members of the freezing workers’ lfnion, were, personally notified that they would be required to start operations this morning, but when the call was made, they were not found prepared to begin. The call was made a.s usual, hut no butchers were at the works. A number bad gathered at the railway subway apparently for observational purposes, but there was no untoward incident. The management had arranged for a. small killing to take place, in order really to ascertain the position. Now that the butchers have refused to operate, the volunteer labour which has been organised will be set to work, beginning in earnest on Thursday morning. So plentiful is the offering made by young farmers, farm workers, and others to assist m carrying on the industry that the organiser* are embarrassed. It is confidently felt that in a very short space of time the .works will be going to a. satisfactory capacity, and that the industry will be carried on despite the bad leaders and the badly led men of the union.

AT I AIL AY WORKS. ATEN REFUSE TO START. There were only ball a dozen disr ,sentient? when 250 Wanganui freezing works bands last night adopted a resolution in support of the attitude of the Hawke’s Bay men. Consequently the I inlay works were Hot manned by union workers tin’s morning, and volunteer labour will therefore be engaged. WHY THE STRIKE? NO DEMAND MADE FOR INCREASED RATES. A curious feature of the trouble is that officially no ‘demand has been made to the freezing . companies lor increased rates of pay. All that the companies know about the matter, they have had to glean from newspaper reports of unionists’ meetings. These reports, of course, have been plain enough, but it;is rather strange that the union’s officers have not approached the companies’ representatives.