FREEZING WORKS DISPUTE
APPLICATIONS FOR FREELABOUR. [BY TELEGRAPH —PEII PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 15. To-day, the seventh day of the freezing works “go-slow,” ended in the employers’ deciding' to invite applications for free labour. \ meeting was held to-day between the representatives of the various humors’ organisations and of the Cantehttry Freezing Companies. As a result the farmers’ organisations haw undertaken to enrol men in the event of any stoppage occurring at the works.
It is anticipated that notices will tic posted at the works to-morrow, cancelling the previous notices that reduced the output per man to four per hour, and ordering a resumption of the normal killing rate. It is stated that a Union delegate left for the South to-day for the purpose of conferring with the men employed at the various works in the districts affected.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1926, Page 2
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137FREEZING WORKS DISPUTE Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1926, Page 2
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