SLAUGHTERMEN STRIKE
TROUBLE AT ISLINGTON, • — ■■'?■; •' IDENTIFICATION TICKETS.- : • ~-■•'■ — ' -MM MEN* REFUSE TO USE THEM [BT TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, Mcnsd-*; ; : The slaughtermen at the New Zealand ■ Refrigerating Company's Islington Works ceased work this morning. The trouble ij-:lj due to the men refusing to place identi.';*?" fication tickets on the sheep. killed and f dressed by them. -J, J The management insisted on this duty r v being carried out, and the butchers, num. *i* bering between 40 and 50, walked off the -i boards. - ? There was trouble at the other works-* this morning over the same matter, but it was amicably settled, and work wae " carried on. V-" The use of the identification tags baa ut-eii in anoyance during the period of th« - commandeer, and has only lately been -■'■ inverted to. ~
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17461, 4 May 1920, Page 4
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130SLAUGHTERMEN STRIKE New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17461, 4 May 1920, Page 4
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