FREEZING WORKERS.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18805, 29 November 1932, Page 8

FREEZING WORKERS.

CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS

NO STATEMENT FOR PRESS

(By Teleo’tanh.— Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. A conference between the freezing workers and the employers is ’proceeding to-day in private. No statement is available for tbe press.

TACKS STREWN ON ROAD. MANY TYRES BURST. (By TclegraDh.—Press Association.) . NEW PLYMOUTH, Tuesday. The loading of meat into the liner Karamea yesterday and last night by 150 farmers was not devoid of incident. Hundreds of tacks were strewn on the main road to the port during the night, and several motorists had tyres punctured, causing the police to divert farmers driving away from the wharves at ten o’clock, to use a -track along the beach. A member of the farmer gang left his motor-cycle at a building a few chains up the road. Later it was found that the cycle had suffered severely. The ignition wires had been cut, and the caps to the tanks taken. The controls were bent right down over the handle-bars, and the headlamp was twisted round.

DISPUTE AT GISBORNE. BOTH SIDES STAND FIRM. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GISBORNE, Tuesday. There have been no new developments concerning the loading of the steamer Tiroa. The union maintains its attitude in regard to the size of the gang required to handle railway sleepers, and the owners of the vessel decline to make any further concession -than was made yesterday.

FARMERS LOAD CARGO. A DEADLOCK ENDED. NEW PLYMOUTH, Monday. The loading of 13,000 carcases of meat on the liner Karamea was begun this afternoon by 150 farmers, thus ending a long deadlock at the port owing to the unionists’ refusal to handle meat. The farmers who responded to-day were under the leadership of Mr H. E. Blyde, president of the North Taranaki Farmers’ Union. Where they parked their cars at the foot of the wharf there had been erected a light wooden barricade and members of the police force were standing by. The farmers decided to work until 10 o’clock this evening, and to sleep on the vessel to-night. They will continue loading throughout tomorrow. The loading of 5000 boxes of butter and 7000 crates of cheese into the Karamea by unionists, which was commenced on Friday afternoon, was completed at mid-day to-day. FARMER’S CYCLE DAMAGED. NEW PLYMOUTH, Monday. One of the farmers employed In loading the Karamea, not knowing that he could leave his motor cycle on tue wharf during loading operations, left it on the side of the road near by. About four hours later, early this evening, he found the machine badly damaged.