TROUBLE AT FREEZING WORKS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 12 May 1925, Page 4

TROUBLE AT FREEZING WORKS

VICTIMISATION DENIED (United Press Association.) GISBORNE, This Day. An absolute denial of allegations of victimisation of the slaughtermen concerned in the Tokomaru Bay freezing works trouble was given this morning by tiie chairman of directors of the Gisborne Shccpfarmefs’ Company. Mr J. W. Nolan. Work was available for the men as soon as they were prepared to take it. The position with regard to the man over whom the trouble arose was that for the past four or five years he had been employed at the Tokomaru works. He commenced work this year, and then left on his own account, to go to Waipawa, After three weeks there he went to Wairoa and worked a shorttime, and then returned to Tokomaru. In the meantime another man had P re ~ viously been engaged and started wo-'k a day or two after the other had made application. No further men were required, and the man was not, therefore, given a job. The man approached his own comrades and asked them to come out on strike but they refused, and it was only after a visit of the union secretary that they did so. The Inspector of Factories is proceeding against seventeen employees for being parties to a strike, and tiie case will be heard on June 9tb.