ALLEGED “GO-SLOW”

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 115, 13 February 1928, Page 6

ALLEGED “GO-SLOW”

FARMERS EXPRESS ALARM BY Telegraph.—dress association. Feilding, February 11. Within the last four weeks certain freezing works in Wellington Province have been seriously affected by the employment of “go-slow” tactics by the butchers. The fact that the drafting of fat sheep for the works concerned stopped without any explanation caused the farmers not only serious inconvenience and losses but deep concern as to what was going on. That the absence of information was giving the farming community some concern was evident from the tenor of the proceedings at yesterday’s meeting of the Wellington Provincial Executive of the Farmers’ Union at Feilding. Discussion on the matter was taken in committee. After delegates from the King Country, the Rangitikei and Feilding districts had expressed their views, the following resolution was carried and handed to the Press: — “That this meeting of the Wellington Provincial Executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union views witli alarm the employment of ’go-slow’ tactics by the butchers at the freezing works 'at Wanganui, and then at Wellington,.l and records its surprise that no frank statement of the trouble has been issued by the freezing companies concerned in the face of the serious national loss involved, in which the farmers are vitally affected. Further, the meeting is of the opinion that the presence of so much unemployment in the Dominion excludes any justification ■ for a ‘go-slow* policy.”