FREEZING WORKS TROUBLE
UNIONISTS WORK ALONGSIDE -VOLUNTEERS. Dominion Special. Feilding, December 7. This morning a call was made for six butchers, and the requisite number was immediately forthcoming from union men, who were immediately put to work alongside volunteers. There are now 26 butchers, engaged at the local works, comprising 20 volunteers and six union members. It is expected that about 800 lambs .will be put through to-day. Farmers are receiving Bd. per lb. for lambs up to 361 b. weight,, and '7d. per lb. for over that weight. The opening price last year was 9d. Be Teeegbaph.—Pbess association. Palmerston North, December 7. The Longburn freezing works this morning employed union butchers for the first time since the strike, sixteen
supplementing the volunteer slaughtermen. Thirty, men in all are operating to-day, the full capacity being thirtyeight.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 63, 8 December 1926, Page 12
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136FREEZING WORKS TROUBLE Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 63, 8 December 1926, Page 12
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