“GO SLOW” TACTICS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 276, 11 February 1928, Page 13

“GO SLOW” TACTICS

FARMERS ALARMED FREEZING WORKS AFFECTED Frees Association. FEILDING, To-day. Within the last four weeks certain freezing works In the Wellington province have been seriously affected by the employment of "go slow” tactics by butchers, and the fact that the drafting of fat sheep for the works concerned was stopped without any explanation caused farmers not only serious inconvenience aDd losses, but deep concern as to what was going on. That the absence of Information was giving the farming community some concern was evident from the tenor of proceedings at yesterday’s meeting of the Wellington Provincial Executive of the New, Zealand Farmer's’ Union at Feildlng, when a discussion on the matter was taken in committee. After delegates from the King Country, Rangltikel and Feilding districts had expressed their views, the following resolution was carried and handed to the Press: "That this meeting of the Wellington Provincial Executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union views with alarm the employment of ‘go slow’ tactics by the butchers at the freezing works at Wanganui and at Wellington. It also records surprise that no frank statement of trouble has been issued by the freezing companies concerned, In the face of the serious national loss involved, and in which farmers are vitally affected. Further, it is of opinion that the presence of so much unemployment in the Dominion excludes any justification for a ‘go slow policy.’ ”