HINT OF STRIKE

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3847, 1 October 1932, Page 5

HINT OF STRIKE

In the Freezing Industry SAID TO BE THIS MONTH BITGRERS BAXKP..rRTCY REDCGTION IN EARNINGS WHAT BANKRFPT SAID (Per Press Association) Hamilton, September 30. A deficiency of FB4 was disclosed in t/ie bankrupt, rotate of Victor Traver s Morley butohar, To Rapa, who me*t liif? creditors before tlio official assignee, Mr V. R. CrowhurMt, to-day. Debts due to unsecured creditors totalled C Q P. and assets Acre valued ac £O.

Bankrupt, who i s employed as a butcher at the Horoiiu freezing .stiued that 'ho was earning £405 a year in 1930. Ho married in November of that, year, and ltoujzht furniture to the value of C2OO under a hire purchase agreement. Lasfc year he earned £234. and during: the current* season lie was on-1 of work for several months. In tire last :-*»x months he had earned only £93. He had a lea*-e of his house and was paying 32fc a week i n rent. Bankrupt said he was unable to pay bis debts owing to the reduction in. his earnings.

Bankrupt said lie could make no offer to his creditor. . Freezing works employees, ho said, intended to go on strike next, month as a against the proposed further rodnotion in waiter. The proposed reduction would bring the rate of pay clown .to 57 per rent. below the 11*30 level. Tie meet in a; was adjourned.