FREEZING DEADLOCK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19474, 2 November 1926, Page 10

FREEZING DEADLOCK.

POSITION IN HAWKE'S BAY. QUIET DAY AT THE WORKS. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] HASTINGS. Monday. Conditions at the three freezing works, which should have been opened for the season this morning were quiet, there being practically no applications for work. The regular maintenance hands came onjis usual, .aud no picketing was observable. The trouble comes at a very critical time for fanners, yho want to lighten their holding of fat stock in face of dry weather and poor markets. The meeting of freezing workers held yesterday was moro or less a fiasco, because though there wa3 a strong element present for going to work they could only beat the air, an uo resolution rescinding the original resolution would be received. An effort is being made io prevent the holding of another meeting on the ground that tho matter has gone out of the workers' control, and is now in the hands of the Alliance of Labour, but, as a large majority of the men at yesterday's meeting were ready to go to work, they will not be disposed to .agree. THE SITUATION IN CANTERBURY. MEM'S ATTITUDE UNCERTAIN. [BY TELEGRAPH. OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. As the killing season in Canterbury is not due to commence for another month it is considered rather early to speculate as to what attitude the members of the Canterbury Freezing Workers' Union are likely to take up in view of the trouble that has developed in Hawke's Bay. A meeting of the union was held on Saturday night, but the secretary stated this morning that ho had no statement to make.