STRIKE AT FREEZING WORKS.
A WHAKATANE DISPUTE. (Per Press Association.) WHAKATANE, Jan. 29. A strike occurred yesterday at the East Coast Co-operative Freezing Company's works in Whakatane. It is understood the men held a stop work meeting at 9 a.m., and at 1 p.m. the delegates demanded altered conditions and threepence an hour increase for all labour at the works, specifying for an immediate reply. The management took up the attitude that they could not treat with the men while on strike, but if they carried on their work the rnanagejiitnt would confer with them at a given time. The men refiisij. It is now a case of awaiting M.’ Sill the general secretary of the Freez. ing Workers’ Union, who is expected here to-n’orrow.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 17779, 30 January 1920, Page 9
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125STRIKE AT FREEZING WORKS. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 17779, 30 January 1920, Page 9
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