"STAY-IN STRIKE The TARANAKI CENTRAL PRESS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 336, 18 January 1937, Page 6

"STAY-IN STRIKE The TARANAKI CENTRAL PRESS

MEN RETURN TO WORK.

MINISTER’S APPEAL.

Conference To Be Held By Thursday.

Press Association —Copyright. Auckland, Last Night The stay-in of freezing worki

finished last night after addresses by the Minister of Labour, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, yesterday and the men will return to work on Monday upon the Minister’s assuranoe that he would call a conference of employees and employers not later than Thursday.

In the afternoon delegates from the Westfield, Southdown, King’s Wharf and Horotliu' works assembled at Auckland for a conference with the, Minister, and after three, hours’ deliberation each section returned to its respective works. The men then voted upon the proposal to return to work on the understanding that a conference would be held before Thursday to consider the revision of the present wages conditions, and within an hour of the delegates’ return the men collected their belongings and returned home. Confident in the belief that reports from the other works would be similar to the decision at Westfield the men began to congregate in the works yard with rolled blankets and bedding strapped on their shoulders. Cars which had been standing idle for four days were cranked into activity and hundreds of cycles and motor-cycles were brought forth from improvised shelters as the men prepared for a hasty exodus for home and its comforts. When definite news was received that the stayin tactics had been abandoned the men were soon homeward bound.