FREEZERS HOLD-UP.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 30 November 1926, Page 5

FREEZERS HOLD-UP.

POSITION AT WAINGAWA. FORTY BUTCHERS WORKING. WORK PROCEEDING STEADILY, Excellent progress' is being made with slaughtering operations at the V ailigawa Freezing Works. To-day forty voluntary butchers are operating, and work is proceeding satisfactorily.

The men who took up the killing work last week Stave now become very proficient. Many have signified their intention of continuing as butchers, as the money to be earned is considerably greater than that earned by farm workers!. IS TROUBLE SPREADING? ATTITUDE OF WATERSIDERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NAPIER, Monday. A call was made late' this afternoon for labour to load frozen meat killed by non-unionists to the Port Hobart, which is completing her loading at this port. . There was no response to the call, but this might be due to a shortage of labour owing to the number of vessels in port. However, the real test of the attitude of the watersiders will come on Wednesday morning, when a further call will be mado POSITION AT PATEA. HAWERA, This Day. - When the season commenced at the Patea works this morning, no Union Slaughtermen accepted work on mutton for export, though a number of Unionists accepted re-engagement in other branches. Killing has commenced, fifteen nonunion butchers being sufficient, to cope with the present offering CALL NOT ANSWERED. NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. At Borthwick’s meal works' at Waitara this ’morning, a further call was made for mutton butchers without response. The firm is determined to carry on, and further developments are expected in a day or two. SUPPORT FOR STRIKERS. FROM TRAMWAY UNION. At a meeting of the executive of the Wellington Tramway Employees’ Union the following resolution was carried:— "The executive places on record its sympathy with the Hawke’s Bay freezing workers in the stand they have taken to secure a living wage for the services' they fender to the community, and declares that it is a public scandal that between 30 and 40 per cent of those workers are only able to earn, under an award of the Arbitration Court, and in one of the greatest industries of the country, a wage of, roughly, £3 to £3 5s a week during the season, and arc then dismissed when the labour market is at its worst. Tire union draws public attention to the fact that the employers, whose mouthpieces are advocating an industrial'peace, have in this industry rejected a proposal to meet the uniou representatives in conference, and have also refused to join with the union in an' application to the Arbitration Court for an amendment of the award, according to the Court’s pronouncement in September, 1925. As the employers have taken up an unreasonable and dictatorial attitude, the Tramways Union appeals to the workers through their industrial organisations to give every support to the freezing workers in their just claim for adequate remuneration.”