MEN REFUSE WORK

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 356, 18 October 1932, Page 5

MEN REFUSE WORK

(Press. Assn.-

OBJECT TO NEW TERMS OFFERED BY THfe EMPLOYERS - gOUTH iSLAND AFFECTED , Freeping works ,efnpIoyees throughout New Zealand did. hot offer for work yesteruay morning and a general strike appeairs likely tp paralyse the industry. Recerifly the award Iapsed followirig the breakdowh of proceedihgs iri the Arbxtrati.on Co'urt," arid the men have refused to accept the new terms offered hy the eiriployers.' The killing seasori is just aBou't to commence, hui wheri the majbrity of the .works opened yesterday, the men did not report for dpty. Nexther side has so far made an official statement.

— By Telegraph — Copyright).

Auckland, Monday. Slaughtermen and freezing works' employees, at meetings held in Auckland and Horotiu; during the weekend, decided riot to accept the new wage-s and terms of employment offered by the meat export freezing companies. The union has been notified that the new terms will come into operation to-day:, while on the- nbtice-s posted in eaeh works it is stated that they will be enforced as from today throughout the 1932-33, season. The decision of the men means that no killing will take place at free-zirig works in the Auckland Provinee to-day. The works affe.cted are Westfield, Southdown a'nd Horotiu. The: w.brks at Moerewa, North Auckland,' have not yet opened for the seasori," while the decision will not concern works iri the Gisborne district, which will be subjeet to a separate vote by the men, who comprise a sub-union.