SETTLED!

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12620, 3 December 1926, Page 8

SETTLED!

FREEZING DISPUTE WORK TO BEGIN IMMEDIATELY NEW AWARD TO BE SOUGHT 1 After sitting for the best part of two days, the conference between the representatives of the freezing companies and the Freezing Workers’ Union has resulted in an agreement being reached, work to be resumed at once and a new award to be jointly applied for. Thfe conference resumed vesterday morning, and later ini the day Mr P. Hally, Conciliation Commissioner (who presided at the conference), reported that an agreement had been arrived it. A joint application was made immediately by the parties to the Arbitration Court for a new award >to supersede the existing award, which does not expire until June, and if the Arbitration Court should amend the rates of wages such alteration, if any, be made retrospective; as far as possible, to December Ist. It was also agreed that the men should bey instructed forthwith to accept engagement at all works. The employers were represented at the conference by Sir Francis Boys (New Zealand Refrigerating Company, Canterbury), and Messrs J. Milne (Wellington Meat Export Company), T. Simpson (Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Company), F. S. Candy (Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Freezing Company). J. T. Rogerson (Longburn Freezing Company), AV. H. Tripe (Gear Meat Company) D. Allan (Wairarapa Frozen Meat Company), C. G. Wilken (secretary of the South Island Freezing Companies’ Association), and F. B. Sanderson (secretary of ‘the North Island Freezing Companies’ Association. The workers were represented by Messrs H. C. Revell (secretary of the New Zealand Freezing Workers’ Federation), A. McLeod (Wellington), T. C. l Ellis (Canterbury), A. Baker .(Wellington), J. Hutchison (president of the Freezing Workers’ Federation), E. Siel (Auckland), J, Millburn (Otago and Southland), and A. Hudson (Poverty Bay).