SLAUGHTERMEN’S AWARD
DISPUTE AT AUCKLAND. [PKB PBESB ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, October 30. A bombshell has been thrown at the management of the local freezing works, by tlio refusal of additional slaughtermen to accept work. The men are understood to be acting on orders from their Union in Wellington, not to accept work till their award has been considered by the Arbitration Court at Christchurch on November 5. Slaughtermen now engaged are not affected, but the restriction on the engagement of new hands is a serious matter to the industry, which is on i'he eve of its busiest season. It is estimated that, if the refusal to work continues, three hundred to four hundred men who normally found employment will be effected. This number will be increased as the lamb killing season approaches its peak. So far as is known, only the Auckland Union officers have enforced the instructions.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 October 1931, Page 2
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