POSITION UNCHANGED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17957, 8 December 1932, Page 11

POSITION UNCHANGED

FREEZING TyORKS STRIKE

COMPANIES HOLDING OFF £

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. There is ao change in the freezing ■works situalfob, and the strike is stilt on.-I The companies have been holding off hoping for a speedy ending to the dispute, and not being desirous of dispossessing the regular slaughtermen of then positions by engaging a large number ol outside workers, for it is felt that a majority of the union members are anxious to get hack to work. A message has been received by the Wellington freezing companies from the management of one of the Gisborne district companies that the strike has been declared off in that area as from last Tuesday, and that about 30 slaughtermen, applied for their hooks, but only five could bo absorbed at once. NEW DEVELOPMENT BUTCHERS WANT HOOKS # Though no official information could he P obtained to day regarding the above message from Wellington, it was known in town that a meeting of the union was held in Gisborne on Tuesday evening, admission being striptly limited to unionists, arid that subsequently a proposal was submitted to the New Zeslan<| Freezers’ Federation. The actual terihs of the proposal have not bean S*ed, but individual members of the have intimated to the Kaiti wm-k\. gement that the trouble reg-trlihg rates is over, so far as this district is concerned. A large number of men applied for engagement in the freezing works yesterday morning, .the management stated todasy and several-were given their cld jobs, the remainder not being required for the present owing to the fact tl at the factory is well staffed with men who from the first accepted th*> employers’ ratgs for the season. The number of applications supported the verbal assurances given to the management that the trouble was over, and that an order from the New Zealand federation for the. general acceptance of work was expected hourly.