THE FLAXMILL DISPUTE.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 166, 10 June 1919, Page 5

THE FLAXMILL DISPUTE.

]'£ DEADLOCK REACHED. ii

' FALMERSTON Iff., June 10. ,t A deadlock has been - readied mi connection with the negotiations >| between., the New 'Zea'lantl Flaxmillers' , Associa/iion and the Mana-; watu Flaxmill WorTcers- Association,. relative- to the' new- agreement' governing wages. A flaxmill workers'' conference was mutually decided upon, but at the last moment the parties were unable to get together on account of the union's naming as one of its, delegates a man whose name appears on the -prescribed list as a-; military:, defaulter. ' The employers asked the Tmion .to'.j appoint another man in his place, otherwise they would not meet them, but the union refused to accede to tjlie request. ; . | ;•: The employers are ecf xinlly as Adamant, and there ote matter' stands. . .