OVERTIME AND MEAT

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24850, 23 March 1944, Page 6

OVERTIME AND MEAT

FOUNDRY WORKERS' CLAIM AGREEMENT NOT REACHED No settlement had been reached last night with employees of Mason Brothers Engineering Company, Limited, who have refused to work overtime since Monday night unless coupons to procure rationed meat are provided for evening meals which, under the award, must be paid for bv the employer. Workers at the Senior Foundry decided yesterday that they would work no more overtime until Friday, when a meeting of the Engineers' Union'will he held to consider the general effect of meat rationing on workers required to be employed for long hours. ' A denial of a statement made on Tuesday night by a representative of Mason Brothers, to the effect that instructions had been given for the issue of coupons for foundry workers who were required to obtain meals during overtime, was made by the food controller iu Auckland, Mr. N. G. Meuli, yesterday. He said his office had looked into' the position following representations to the Government, but no extra coupons had been issued. The only workers who received an extra allowance were watersiders on 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shifts. The origin of the statement that coupons would be made available was traced vesterday to a telegram sent from the New Zealand Ironmasters' Federation in Wellington to the Auckland association, in which it was stated that the local food controller had been instructed to make "arrangements" regarding the issue of coupons for the meals in question. However, the position was cleared up yesterday afternoon by a further telegram, in which the word "investigations" had been substituted for "arrangements." KILLING IN WAR PROBLEMS FOR CIVIL LIFE (Reed. G. 30 p.m.) NEW YORK. March it Ten million returned soldiers would create new problems in crime detection, because men trained to kill would not slump back into the normal life they pursued before joining the Army, said the. head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mr. F. F. Conroy, in a speech at New York. He said that some commandos might become a particular danger, since they were taught to kill skilfully and soundlessly, and their ranks included a certain percentage who would normally become criminals. Now they were going to become post-graduates iu crime. Others who did not possess criminal instincts might be driven to utilise the technique of killing they learned in the Army if they became victims of unemployment or other real or fancied ills. Most men, where there is want, revert to old-type savagery, when they take care of their own. The picture, he concluded, is not pleasant.

PARIS MURDERS

PETIOT'S BODY FOUND (Recti. 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 21 The Vichy radio announced that the body of Dr. Petiot, who is accused of the' Paris murders, is stated to have been found in the Liver Yonnc, near Fontainebleau.