MEAT WORKS DISPUTE
MEN AT KAIAPOI DECIDE TO RESUME. TRIBUNAL TO BE SET UP BY MINISTER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Workers at the North Canterbury Sheep Farmers’ Co-operative Company’s works at Kaiapoi decided to resume work at one o’clock today, after a secret ballot on the issue, the voting being 75 for resumption and 50 against. This was stated by the secretary of the Canterbury Freezing Workers’ Union, Mr H. G. Kilpatrick, who went to the works this morning at the request of the men. The meeting was held just after eight o’clock, when he submitted a resolution, in line with the union executive’s policy, that they resume work immediately and refer the matter in dispute to a competent tribunal for settlement. The resolution was not accepted immediately, said MrKilpat-. rick. A lengthy discussion took place, during which contact was made with the Minister of Labour (Mr Webb) in Wellington. The Minister gave an assurance that a tribunal would be set up immediately and that the. men would be given an opportunity to choose their own representatives for it.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 January 1944, Page 4
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