IRRITATION TACTICS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18892, 6 January 1927, Page 6

IRRITATION TACTICS.

SLAUGHTERMEN AND NECKSTRINGS.

TROUBLE AT MEAT WORKS.

(FRZSS ASSOCIATION TiLBGBAM )

MASTEKTON, January 5,

As the result of-a dispute, between the slaughtermen at the Waingawa freezing works and the management of the company tho entire board, numbering some fifty butchers, was paid off to-dav.

It in understood that the dispute arose over a request by the slaughtermen that labourers should be employed to tie neckstrings on the carcases. A meeting of butchers was held, when it was decided by a small majority to hold up work. The management this evening issued the following statement: — "As a Tesult of continued irritation tactics bv the slaughtermen the management of the Waingawa works was to-day obliged to dismiss all its butchers. It is intended to man the board again immediately With free labour slaughtermen, and preparations are already well forward. As the recent defence Organisation was not disbanded, killing by free labour ia expected to resume in the morning." It was learned that a meeting of slaughterboard labourers decided that in view of the fact that they wore not consulted by the slaughtermen they would eontinuo to work, and in tho event of frco labour volunteer slaughtermen being engaged they would handle tho meat as usual. The president of the local branch of the union stated to-night that tho dispute was not a union matter.