Restless Slaughtermen.
♦ STRIKE ON THE EAST COAST. ; (Per Press -Association.) Whakatftne, January 29. A istrike occurred yesterday at tii_> East Coast 00-operative Freezing Co.'s works in' Whakatane. It is under- , stood tJio men hold n., stop-woiik meeting at 9 a.m., and at 1 p.m. the delegates demanded altered conditions and . 3d an hour increase, for all labour at (the works, specifying an immediate reply. , The management took up the attitude ■tude that it could not treat with the men while on strike, but if they carried on !the .work they would> confer with them at a. Jjiven time. Tbe men refused, and it is now a ivjase of awaiting Mr SHI, the general secretary of the Freezing Workers' Union, who ie expected here to-mWr-wor.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 January 1920, Page 3
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