FREEZING WORKERS

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 120, 17 April 1930, Page 2

FREEZING WORKERS

TERRORISTIC CAMPAIGN. COMMUNIST ORGANISATION. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, April 16. A terroristic campaign is reported to have been ' inaugurated among the freezing workers of the Dominion by a Communist organisation known as “The propaganda committee,” which has been responsible lor the extension to Canterbury of the recent dispute in the South Otago freezing works. The members of this organisation, it is stated, have resorted to personal violence against those who oppose their views and their activities. Mr H. C. ltevell, secretary of the New Zealand Freezing Workers’ Federation, was recently the victim of an assault by a much younger man when visiting the Paeora freezing works, and Mr Alex. McLeod, secretary of tho Wellington breezing Workers’ Union, was attacked in. his office.. It is also reported that Mr H. T. Armstrong, M.P., was attacked personally in Wellington recently by a gang of Communists, v

Mr Revell said this morning that the members of this self-constituted committee, while declaring that they were out to fight intimidation and victimisation on the part of tho employers, resorted to far baser methods than the employers could ever descend to. During the past few months an intense struggle had been taking place in the freezing workers’ organisation between the official body and this unofficial committee. It had been/a desperate fight on account of the methods which these men were prepared to adopt in order ,to gain their ends.