NEW FREEZING WORKS UNION

Taranaki Daily News, 10 November 1932, Page 5

NEW FREEZING WORKS UNION

PROTECTIVE PLAN AT AUCKLAND ECHO OF NEW-TERMS STOPPAGE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The formation of a new industrial union among workers at the freezing works at Southdown has been undertaken by the new employees who were •engaged by the company after the slaughtermen and other workers refused to accept the new terms of employment. A meeting of about 80 men was held at the Southdown works to consider the proposal, and a motion was unanimously adopted that a new union be formed, to be known as the Southdown Freezing Workers’ Union. The requisite number of members was enrolled and temporary officials and executive were elected to take preliminary steps to establish the movement.

“Application has already been made to the registrar at Wellington,” stated one of the temporary officials. This step was taken purely as a protective measure, said one of the provisional executive. He stated that the men now employed at Southdown had felt that they had to stand together to resist any attempt on the part of the former unionists to supersede them in employment.

At the Westfield works it was stated that a similar proposal was being discussed’by the employees. No definite step had been taken but there was a likelihood that a separate movement to cover Westfield, workers only would be launched at an early date.