LABOUR TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3477, 4 May 1920, Page 5

LABOU R TROUBLES.

SLAUGHTERMEN CEASE WORK. __._... CHRISTCHURCH, May 3'l‘he slaughtermen at the New Zealand Refrigerating Company’s Islington works, ceased Work this morning. The trouble is due to the men refusing to place identification‘ tickets on sheep killed and dressed by them. The management ifisjted on this duty ;being carried out, _a-nd the butchers numbering V between” 40, and 50, walked off the boards. 'l.‘-_l}gal‘e'Was trouble at other works thii3fl_l39rning over the same matter, but “it was amicarbly settled and work was carried on, The use of the identification tags has been absent dtgring the period of the commandeerfané. has‘ only lately _-been reverted to. .