STRIKE AT HOROTIU

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 68, 21 March 1942, Page 3

STRIKE AT HOROTIU

LAKPtNIERS CI IARG! !) Ol I EXDEKS (O.XMf (P.A.) Hamilton, March 2‘ Charged under the Airh.rs ; Lockouts Emergency Regulations, being party to a strike a 1 IMioiiu ... March 38 carpenters pieanc . . .. . before Mr. W. H. Freeman, . m I da; . Following the lead oi I magistrate at Auckland in d .eia . witn a similar occur! cr.r", Mi. i- 1 • man convicted each G'?miMu; , .i am ordered him to come up loi nw ithin 12 months ii ■ am l upon. None of the men appeal M . J. R. Fitzgerald appeared ior I.a- a. de < nt T. Henry, oi Av.cklam;. Mr. Fitzgei I all the mt n ■ that capacity at Horotiu rieezii.,, Woi ks, where certain t being erected, a meat and buUe; store, and a cheese stOx C. A c* : ..am man was promoted to the posmon o leading hand and transiei-rcu io tin meat store. This meant that all tm men engaged on the meat siorc won; be under the control and direction o this man. On being requested u work at the cheese store the men im - mated that they would not wor . under him. Following several m- • ings and a visit from the Conciliaiioi. Commissioner the men left inc jou it a body. They were away for abom two weeks but nearly all had now returned. Mr. Fitzgerald emphasised the seriousness of the men s action in leaving wbrk of national importance in such grave times