WORK REFUSED BY FEILDING BUTCHERS
unless volunteers dismissed WORKS WILL CARRY ON WITH VOLUNTEER LABOUR. ; > The Union butchers who were paid off on Friday morning at the Aorangi Freezing Works because they refused to handle ram lambs unless paid' a higher rate, failed to turn to yesterday morning. They offered to resume work on consideration that the volunteer butchers were dismissed. The company refused this request Of the butchers and straight Way decided to man -.the board' completely with volunteer butchers. The emergency organisation which dealt with th e trouble early in the season was invoked and. arrangements mad 6 to supply men with experience at killing right away. Timers -are about nine volunteer butchers on the board at present, and all are now handling about 100 a day each. It is anticipated that sufficient volunteers will be forthcoming to render unnecessary, the need for Union butchers in the future.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3539, 22 February 1927, Page 6
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150WORK REFUSED BY FEILDING BUTCHERS Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3539, 22 February 1927, Page 6
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