FREEZING WORKS DISPUTE

Taranaki Daily News, 13 May 1925, Page 5

FREEZING WORKS DISPUTE

VICTIMISATION DENIED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Gisborne, May 12, An absolute denial of allegations of the victimisation of slaughtermen at Tokomaru Bay freezing works was given this morning by the chairman of directors of the Gisborne Sheepfarmers’ Company, Mr. J. W. Nolan. Work was available for the men as soon as they were prepared to take it. The position with regard to the man over whom the trouble arose was that for the past four or five years he had been employed at the Tokoma.ru works. He commenced work this year and then left of his own accord to go to the Waipaoa works. After three weeks there he went to Wairoa, worked a short time and then returned to Tokomaru. In the meantime another man had been engaged and started work a clay or two after the other had made his application. No further men were required and the man was not therefore given a job. The man approached his own comrades and asked them to come out on strike, but they refused and it was only after the visit of the union secretary that they did so. The inspector of factories is proceeding against seventeen employees for being parties to a strike. The case will be heard on June 9.