BUTCHERS STOP

Northern Advocate, 6 January 1937, Page 6

BUTCHERS STOP

FREEZING WORKS IDLE :0;' /. ;• ' \ SEQUEL TO “GO SLOW” PROTEST WAGES TROUBLE AT BELFAST IPer Press Association. —Copyrights ’ CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. '; Borthwick’s freezing works at Belfast are idle, as the result of a deadlock which has been reached in the dispute between the butchers and the company. “Go- slow” tactics were adopted on the killing chains yesterday, and at 2 ' p.m. work was stopped. : The men returned to work this morning, and manned the chains at the request of the employers. A “go slow” policy was again put into operation, and after an hour Word was given for work to cease. It has been stated that the men were told to collect their pay, and tthat they were not to return to work. A meeting of the Canterbury Freezing Workers’ Union has been called ;fbr 10.30 a.m. tomorrow. ■ So far as can be ascertained, the 'dispute at present is confined to the one company, but the men are already confident that they will receive support from the employees of . other works in Canterbury. > v Borthwicks were not operating at the Addington market when today’s sale opened, but other companies bought freely. ; On behalf of the men, it was stated this morning that the dispute arose when the company, without increasing the daily quota of killings, decided to employ an additional number of men pn the chains. Wages are drawn from /a pool, and the men complain that by increasing the number of hands, without raising the quota of killings, the company has asked them to accept lower wages.