“GOING SLOW.”

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10509, 13 February 1928, Page 5

“GOING SLOW.”

WORK IN WELLINGTON FREEZING WORKS DELAYED. SERIOUS LOSS TO FARMERS. INDIGNATION AT SECRECY OF i COMPANIES. \ (.Press Association. FOLDING, ICb. JJ. Within tlie last lour weeks certain freezing works in the Wellington province have been seriously aheeteti by tiio employment oi “go slow’' tactics by butchers, and the fact that the drafting of fat sheep lor the works concerned was stopped without any explanation caused farmers not only serious inconvenience and losses but deep concern as to what was going on. That the absence of information was giving the farming community some concern was in evidence from the tenor of the proceedings at yesterday’s meeting of the Wellington provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union at Teilding. Dmcussion on the-matter was taken in committee. After delegates from the _ King Country, Rangitikei and Teilding districts had expressed their views, the following resolution was carried and handed to the press: “That this meeting of the Wellington provincial executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union views . i with alarm the employment of ‘go ykp slow’ tactics hy the butchers at the freezing works at Wanganui and then at Wellington, and records surprise that no frank statement of the trouble has been issued by the freezing companies concerned in the face of the serious national loss involved, in which the furm- - • ers are virtually affected. Further, this meeting is of the opinion that the presence of so much unemployment in the Dominion excludes any justification for a ‘go slow’ policy.”