STRIKE AT WAITARA.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 March 1922, Page 4

STRIKE AT WAITARA.

FREEZING WORKS DISPUTE. MANY MEN UNEMPLOYED. MEAT INDUSTRY’. HELD UP. The felimongery section at Borthwicks’ freezing works at Waitara refused to start work yesterday morning. The trouble arises over the supply of overalls, the men claiming that they are not being supplied with reasonable equipment to adequately protect their clothing and skin from the chemicals used. The firm contends that the issue is sufficient. The disputes committee had met the previous day, but no result w<aa arrived at. The procedure now followed will be that set out in the award, namely that another disputes committee, representing the Freezing Workers’ Federation and the Employers’ Federation, will meet in Wellington to decide the question. It is undersood that the practice at Waitara in respect of the issue of equipment has followed that adopted by other works. In the meantime the fellmongery employers, numbering about twenty-five, remain out. Other departments dealing with sheep and mutton are affected indirectly, and the number out of work will gradually grow as the work now on hand is overtaken. Another fifty men may be out of employment if the" fellmongery dispute ’is not settled shortly. Operations in the beef section, however, continue unhindered.