SECRET BALLOT TO BE HELD

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 30 November 1938, Page 8

SECRET BALLOT TO BE HELD

DECISION OF THIS MORNING’S MEETING i United Pie Be Association i AUCKLAND, This Day. j Eight hundred idle Westfielc. freezing workers will decide by secret ballot to-morrow morning whether or not they will return to work. This was the decision reached by a further meeting this morning, when failure of yesterday’s negotiations was discussed. It is stated that if the vote is in favour of a return to work it will be put into effect only under protest, and that work will not be resumed until the following day. Immediate steps are to be taken to refer the disputed clause in the award to the Arbitration Court again by way of an appeal against the interpretation given by Mr Gilmour, S.M. It is likely that the union will ask the Court to remedy any defect which it might decide exists in the award. Mr W. E. Sill, secretary of the Freezing Workers’ Union, said to-day that the workers’ grievance was not only the result of Mr Gilmour’s decision, but was also owing to the fact that because of pressure of work on the Arbitration Court they would be unable to have the matter rectified within a reasonable time.