Belfast Freezing Works Idle Following Dispute
[Per Press Association. —Copyright] CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The refusal of workers to man a third chain at the Canterbury works at Belfast of Thomas Borthwick & Sons (Australasia), Ltd., yesterday afternoon, led to the company intimating that no more stock would be supplied for the existing chains until the additional chain was manned. The result was that the works were idle to-day. An official statement by the Canterbury Freezing and Related Trades Union defines the stoppage of work as a ‘‘lock out,” while the company quotes award provisions as giving it the full right to manage and control its own business. Government Intervention. Governmental intervention has been made in the first labour dispute of the 1939-40 freezing season. The Minister of Labour (Mr. Webb) has been in communication with both the company and the disputes committee of the Canterbury Council of the Federation of Labour. Neither side last night would disclose the nature of the Minister’s communication. At present the dispute is localised at the Belfast works. A general meeting of the Freezing Workers’ Union has been called for to-night.
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Northern Advocate, 15 December 1939, Page 6
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