STOP-WORK TALKS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22587, 16 March 1948, Page 6

STOP-WORK TALKS

CABLE’S WORKSHOPS CAFETERIA REQUESTED ALSO SOAP AND TOWELS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, March 16. A stop-work meeting of the men employed in the workshops of William Cable and Company, Limited, engineers, Kaiwarra. is to be held today, to discuss the workers’ claim for the provision of a cafeteria in the workshops and for improved washing facilities. Asked about the meeting, the secretary of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Engineering Workers’ Union, Mr. E. C- Matthews, said the shop . committee at an impromptu meeting at the lunch hour yesterday discussed the union’s claim for a cafeteria and for the provision of soap and towels.

Mr. Matthews said the workers had been asking for years for a cafeteria at Cable’s workshops, but there was none provided. The three main unions represented in tlffe shop were the Engineering Workers’ Union, the Boilermakers’ Union and the Moulders' Union.

Mr. P. E. Warner, secretary of the Boilermakers’ Union, said last evening that the men finished at the workshops yesterday at the usual time. So far as he knew the men on the Wanganella job were not directly affected.