TROUBLE EXPECTED IN FREEZING INDUSTRY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18971, 21 January 1930, Page 7

TROUBLE EXPECTED IN FREEZING INDUSTRY.

According to the secretary of the Canterbury Freezing Workers and Allied Trades Union (Mr H. Revell), a certain amount of friction has developed in the freezing industry between the workers and the employers. It is feared that trouble may develop. Mr Revell stated yesterday that many slaughtermen in the South Island resented having been summoned from full-time jobs in the North Island to work short time in the South. “The works in Canterbury and Otago don’t seem to be working very much more than half-time,” said Mr Revell. “ Apparently this state of affairs was not anticipated by the employers, as they have been wiring for slaughtermen who usually work in the southern sheds, and who are now working full time in the North Island, to come down. “ This is causing a lot of resentment on the part of the slaughtermen who have been brought from full-time jobs in the north to work .half-time in the south, especially in Otago and Southland, where things are even worse than in Canterubry.” The secretary of the South Island Freezing Companies Association, Mr C. G. Wilkin, would not make any comment when approached regarding the matter.