STRIKERS RETURN

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23375, 5 December 1945, Page 4

STRIKERS RETURN

Cool Store Dispute Settled (N Z P.A.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 4. After a stoppage of two will be resumed in the Auckland Farmers' Freezing C° ' s . w / t^ f l2J{hunal stores to-morrow morning. A . Trl “ set up by tbe Acting-Minister of Labour, the Hon. J. O’Brien wih start sittings in the afternoon to thp men’s grievances regaramg temperatures in freezing chambers. The Tribunal will consist of dustrial Magistrate Mr J. A. Gilmour who will preside, two representatives nf the employers and two of tne workers. Dairy.factories throughoutthe Auckland province had been requested bv the Freezing Company not to consign any produce until further nouce When the men decided to return to work th* bluest was cancelled but nnt before quantities of Duller anu cheese loaded into trucks by Waikato factories, had been returned to the freezing chambers. fS*s el have a^ccommodatTon S ror only three days “make” in their store rooms faced an impossible position in trying tn disDOse of their cream. About 35,000 cases of butter have accumulated at Auckland m the wtiaif sheds and railway waggons during the dispute.