STORMY MEETING HELD BY FREEZERS.
OPEN HOSTILITY TO LABOUR ALLIANCE.
Per Press Association. NAPIER, November 23. A meeting of members of the Hawke’s Bay Freezing Workers Union at Hastings to-night was addressed by Mr James Roberts, of the Alliance of Labour, and Mr M’Brine, president of the Auckland watersiders. The meeting w’as a stormy one and a large number of hostile questions were asked, but no opportunity was -given to vote approval or otherwise of the Alliance’s action in the present trouble. The only motion put to the meeting was one conveying thanks to the chairman. The result is that the position is unchanged. There is reason to believe that the free labourers will shortly form a union, in which event many of the strikers assert that they will join if given an opportunity. There is no lack of evidence that unionists in this district oppose the course being pursued at the dictation of the Alliance of Labour, but for some reason or other the men lack courage to take charge of the position and conduct their own affairs according to their own wishes.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18012, 24 November 1926, Page 12
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