WORK REFUSED

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 271, 31 October 1932, Page 7

WORK REFUSED

MEAT FROM WAINGAWA. WATERSIDE HOLD-UP. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Oct. 31. When asked to load a consignmen of about 1500 freight carcases of froien meat into the Commonwealth and Dominion Line motorship Port Gisborne, at Wellington on Saturday morning, the waterside workers refused to handle the meat. No explanations were given, the men simply walking off the wharf, leaving it untouched. The consignment was from Thomas Borthwick and Sons’ Waingawa works, which are at present operating with free labour owing to the freezing workers’ dispute. The possibility of the men’s refusal to handle this non-union labour meat had been considered by the shipping company, arid no attempt was made to induce the watersiders to handle it after their first refusal, the Port Gisborne sailing at noon on Saturday for Auckland to complete loading for Loudon. WAITARA MEAT “UNTOUCHABLE” By Telegraph—Press Association. Now Plymouth, Oct. 31. When loading operations began this morning on the liner Norfolk, water, eiders accepted a call but refused to touch the meat from Waitara on the grounds that it had been handled by non-unionists in the works. The meat was railed back to Waitara. The loading of dairy produce on both the Norfolk and the Tainui continues with* out interruption. The Norfolk meat allotment was 20,300 carcases and was all from Waitara.