SUGAR-WORKS TROUBLE.
WHY STRIKE CONTINUES. COMPANY WILL CHOOSE ITS EMPLOYEES. rrcss Attociation. AUCKLAND, September 7. The decision of the Birkenhead sugar workers not to resume work until all the men who participated in the strike are. reinstated was the sequel to a statement made by the manager of the company that the company was going to exercise its common law rights in this matter. In effect, this implied that the company would engage only those men whom it chose. The names of certain men whom the company did not deem it desirable to return to the works were mentioned. One of these men had been 38 years in the company's employ. In order that, there might be no suspicion of victimisation, it was explained that the company had a rule which provided that no man over 50 years of age should be employed in the works. It was on account of this man's age that his services were to be dispensed with, not because he was one of the strikers.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2048, 7 September 1920, Page 6
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