STORMY MEETING
HAWKES BAY FREEZING WORKERS
ADDRESSED BY ME, KOBEKTS.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NviPIEB, L>3ru Nov. A meeting of members of the Hawkes Bay Freezing Workers' Union, at Hastings, to-night, was addressed by Mr. James Eoberts, of the Alliance of Labour, and Mr. M'Brine, president of the Auckland Watcrsidors' Union. Tde meeting was a stormy one and a laige number of hostile questions tvero asked, but no opportunity was given to vote approval or otherwise of the alliance's action in the present trouble. The only motion put to the meeting was one conveying thanks to the chairman. The result is that the position is unchanged. There 13 reason to believe that the free labourers will shortly form a union, in which event many of the strikers assert that they will join if given an opportunity. There is no lack of evidence that the unionists in this district oppose the course being pursued at the dictation of the Alliance of ' Labour, but for some reason or other the men lack the coinage :x> take charge of (he position and conduct their own affairs according to their own wishes.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 126, 24 November 1926, Page 12
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187STORMY MEETING Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 126, 24 November 1926, Page 12
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