WORK RESUMED

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4564, 3 November 1937, Page 5

WORK RESUMED

FREEZING WORKS DISPUTE. GESTURE OF EMPLOYEES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, this day. Having made their gesture the employees of the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company decided to return to work about nine o'clock this morning, and operations at the King Wharf freezing works are again in full swing. A decision to cease work until the company consents to re-engage a man whom it is alleged has been refused employment on account of his union activities last year, was made at a meeting last night by a majority of the 100 men engaged at the King's Wharf works of the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company, Limited. Protracted discussions on the question took place throughout yesterday afternoon. The dispute is regarded as a sectional rather than a union question and no other freezing works are affected.

Representatives of the men made it clear that their decision was based on a belief that a member of the union had been subjected to victimisation. It was explained that the worker in question had been the union delegate last year and in the preceding three years was a regular employee of the company. When work became slack last year he, with others, had been dismissed, but when business again increased he was not re-employed.