TWO MEN BARRED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20623, 26 November 1941, Page 7

TWO MEN BARRED

PROTEST AT WORKS FORMER DELEGATES (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Further employment to two men who had been branch delegates at the Belfast freezing works has been refused by Thomas Bortlrwick and Sons Limited. Before the chain began work at the opening of the season yesterday its members held a meeting to discuss the company’s attitude and later began killing under protest after a delegate pro tern was elected. A further meeting of the branch is to he held next week when the second chain will be engaged. Work proceeded smoothly yesterday and the possibility of other branches being involved in later discussions between the company and Borthwick’s Belfast branch of the Canterbury Freezing Workers’ Union is considered to be remote. Neither the company nor the secretary of the union, Mr. H. G. Kilpatrick, would make any statement on the development or events leading up to it. The position was fully explained to 38 chain workers at Belfast when they held their usual meetings at the beginning of the season yesterday by the union’s secretary. The union’s executive, it is reported, had decided that there should be no stoppage of work and further developments are now unlikely until another meeting of the full branch is held next week. Single chains were set in operation at all other Canterbury works yesterday, the season opening smoothly. Good supplies of stock are coming forward and regular deliveries at the works for as .far ahead as Christmas are anticipated by the companies.