FREEZING INDUSTRY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18244, 10 November 1922, Page 7

FREEZING INDUSTRY.

QUESTION OF TEAM WSftK. SCPPLEMENTA# 'AWARD BQ9&HT.

An application for a supplemenjUey award for ireezmg slaughtermen by the : . Arbitration Court yesterday, -when, Mr. P. V. Sanderson, oh behalf 0f... the freezing companies of the Northern;, district, asked the.Court to treat the application on a Dominion haws. He Stated that, following the into operation of the Court's order* reducing May last; workers at some of .the Jreesing works;. particularly the islaughtermen, refused jcohtShue*, working as ''■' a' protest. As the season was not-completed/ it was necessatyCinJ6(rtift 7 ,;cases,-;to engage;., frea labourers.' question •, then.. -i .arose whether ihese'rieh were 'covered I .fcy : Aha ■.awardv* : -- _....:•"'i ' V/?". ■;;.• >••? •• \, After explMniag why-these ; ers could." not be classed. and 'slaughtermen, -Mr.: Sanderson referred to "team,,w,otkff' r The application in* . tended W provide tor, men engaged on,: subdivision of labour not in vogue or coniemi plated wEeri the last uwsrd/waa made last ! He asked the Court to give I immediate consideration to *he application, in view of the fact that severaj companies had already started -killing opsrataoni, in ' '$». North Island., )% *■; -Q ■'&£% Silii, On behalf *of tho mnion, submitted -»4faat. the applicafioiar» realiy . was for an" amendment- of v^v; -existing' afid. '• :thao - the , O&jirt, therefore, had" In regard to wages, th* employers; asked that the present should be superseded, andean-hojiriy. rato scribed. He submitted;, that whatever the method of slaughtering, the be paid the rates, If the employes could -hotifastituie' the V. "team sysliem without these alterations, it would .appear that the"team '#$» was in conflict with" the award, said.could not operate. ' ' , . ;i. ; >42. After discussing the matter further,'£sa special reference being made to, strikes, His Honor remarked that it seemed pretty clear that by going on strike a union Mfc the employers open to make -thefti-Own conditions;. , • . ~-X ';r The Court Intimated thatJtsdecision would be given in about a we^e'time^