FREEZING WORKS DISPUTE

Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1926, Page 1

FREEZING WORKS DISPUTE

HOW THE CO-SLOW WORKS. FARMERS’ UNION RESOLUTION. []JY TF.I.KG IlAl'lt —TEIt TRUSS ASSOCIATION'.] CHRISTCHURCH. Jan. 13. Killing at the rate of a lamb every fifteen minutes, the slaughtermen at the freezing works in Canterbury worked steadily, hut slowly, to-day. The men are not allowed to kill the day’s quota as they would like, and then leave the works. One lamb is given to a butcher every fifteen minutes, and, as a competent man can easily handle lambs at the rate of ten per hour, this means going very slow indeed.

The Executive of the Farmers' Union and the General Committee of the A. and P. Association carried resolutions to-day. concerning the trouble in the freezing works. The resolutions generally supported the companies in resisting the demands of the- Union in regard to wages, and promised support.

The Farmers’ Union resolution contained the following:—“ I hat, in the event of a stoppage, the branches of the Farmers’ Union should be asked to do their utmost lo find men to carrv on the work.”

There was more rain to-day, and this should help materially to restore the pastures, which were failing badly on some of tbe lighter lands of Canterbury, owing to the dry weather. This will relieve the farmers of much anxiety, because, while the deadlock continues, they must keep their fat stock on their farms. freezing dispute. A WANGANUI DENIAL, WANGANUI. Jan. 13.

The freezing workers’ organisation here emphatically deny the published statement that the stop-work meeting yesterday, which was addressed by Air Robert Semple, was in any wav connected with the freezing workers’ dispute.