FREEZING WORKS DISPUTE

Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1926, Page 9

FREEZING WORKS DISPUTE

BOYCOTT OF MEAT SUGGESTED. ACTIVITY OF THE ALLIANCE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hastings, Nov. 15. 1 At a meeting of freezing workers yesterday Mr. Glover, vice-president of the Alliance of Labour and president of the Watersiders’ Union, delivered an address. The following unanimous resolutions were handed to the Press: That the meeting recommends the Alliance of Labour to cable to the British Labour Party, the Trades Council Federation, and the co-operative societies of Great Britain requesting workers not to purchase New Zealand meat, as it is being produced by “blackleg” labour. This cable will be sent at once, unless a speedy settlement is arrived at between the parties in the present dispute. Another resolution stated that the meeting recommends the Alliance of Labour to spend the money collected for the British miners on the purchase of lambs, to be sent instead of money, conditionally that the freezing dispute is settled. Masterton, Last Night. Commenting on to-day’s wool sale at Wellington, Mr. W. B. Matheson said: “At Hastings to-day a labour organisation handed to the Press a resolution recommending Hie Alliance of Labour to ask the British workers not to purchase New Zealand meat, as it was being produced by blackleg labour. “The truth is that the average sheep farmer in New Zealand is earning smaller wages than the butchers who are declining to help New Zealand to keep busy. In Wellington to-day, typical wool fetched twopence a pound less than last year. This not only means reduced wages for the sheep farmer, but a loss to New Zealand of millions of income Us compared with last year, When prices then realised were below the cost of production in many cases. “These two items of news are of serious import to everyone in New Zealand, for if exports fall seriously below last year’s totals, there will not be sufficient incomings to enable the average citizen to maintain his present standard of living. “It is to be hoped that the man in the street will quickly become aware of the true position, so that further losses may be guarded against.” NO CHANGE AT WAITARA. There is no change in the position at Waitara. Since the mutton butchers came out last week no call has been made to man the mutton boards, and in other directions there has been no further development.