RECENT FREEZING TROUBLE
ATTITUDE OF GISBORNE MEN. t A STATEMENT CONTRADICTED. [by telegraph.—pbess association.] • GISBOENE, Saturday. A statement was published on Thrusday that the members of the Poverty Bay Freezers' Union were not in accord with the attitude of the Alliance of Labour in connection with the recent trouble. It was stated that at a meeting cf members of the union a. resolution expressing noconfidence in the .Alliance of labour was carried by a majority of two to one.'
The matter was referred to Mr,, C. E. Bickford, secretary of the Freezers' Union, who said there was no truth in the statement. He denied that such a resolution as reported had been carried. . OPERATIONS IN HAWSE'S BAY. VOLUNTEERS AND UNIONISTS, [by telegraph.—press association.] HASTINGS. Saturday, Trouble at the Tomoana and Whakatu freezing works, where the "go-slow" policy had been adopted owing to the union members' objection to volunteers, came to an end as the result of an ultimatum given the men at Whakatu yesterday that they must either increase their speed when slaughtering or bo paid off this morning and replaced by volunteer labour. The men fell into line this morning, and work is proceeding as usual in all three works.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19509, 13 December 1926, Page 10
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