FREEZING INDUSTRY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 125, 28 May 1937, Page 10

FREEZING INDUSTRY

WORKERS' PROBLEMS NATIONAL CONFERENCE Outstanding problems or Internal organisation will be discussed at a national conference of freezing workers' representatives which will be held in Wellington shortly. The principal aim of the discussions will be the terms of a proposed amalgamation of the several workers' organisations now existing separately throughout the Dominion (states the Christchurch "Press"). -■ , I The conference has been called by] the New Zealand Federation of Labour] to discuss a situation which, in the. South Island at least, has been a prob-1 lem for several years. But there has' been a good deal of agitation for some time for the settlement of differences which arc said to be holding up national organisation. At the moment there is no single organisation able to claim the affiliation of all the freezing workers in the Dominion. The OtagoSouthland and- Wellington district unions in the industry form the New Zealand Freezing Workers' Federation; the Canterbury district union was principally concerned in the organisation of the South / Island Freezing Workers' Association, and claims to have the allegiance of several unions outside Canterbury; there is a separate organisation at Auckland, affiliated to no main body; nor is the Canterbury organisation affiliated to the New Zealand Freezing Workers' Federation. Apparently the greatest outstanding point of difference is which of the two major organisations should become the parent body for all the unions, able to secure affiliation from all units in the