FREEZING INDUSTRY

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3494, 2 November 1926, Page 10

FREEZING INDUSTRY

SLAUGHTERMEN DIVIDED. AN INDECISIVE MEETING. [Per Press Association.] HASTINGS. Nov. 1. A meeting of freeing workers yesterday seems to have proved more or less of a fiasco. From what can be gathered one thing seems to be outstanding, that the temper of the meeting was unmistakably in favour of work. Mr. A. M’Leod, district secretary, would disclose nothing whatever regarding the business transacted or the result of the meeting. It is unofficially reported, however, that it is proposed to hand in a notice of motion rescinding the original resolution and in favour of going to work_ This extends a hope that things may even yet be smoothed over. There was an attendance of only about ninety men at the meeting hold a couple of weeks ago, out of a roll, it is said, of 1000. The attendance yesterday, however, was easily four times that of the previous meeting. It is stated that an effort is being •made to prevent the holding of another meeting on the ground that the matter has gone out of the workers' control, and is now, in the hands of the Alliance of Labour. The situation at , the three .works this morning .was very quiet, .there bet ;g practically no applications for work, although the regular maintenance hands came on as usual. No picketing was oheorvablc.. The trouble comes at a very critical time for the farmers, who want to lighten their holdings of sheep in face of dry weather and poor markets.