MEAT WORKS HOLD-UP

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 December 1939, Page 8

MEAT WORKS HOLD-UP

REGULATIONS INVOKED BY MINISTER NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO MEET. NEED OF CO-OPERATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Regulations have been invoked by the Minister of Labour (Mr Webb) in the Belfast Freezing Works dispute, which will now come before a national disputes committee. Instructions have been given to proceed with the setting up ol the disputes committee forthwith. The Minister added that he was very disappointed al the attitude taken up by the company. Mr Webb met representatives of the company last night with the object, he said, of expediting an early resumption of work. He wanted a mutual agreement to continue work under present conditions until such time as Ihe dispute could be dealt with. The men were agreeable to such a course. "The Government takes a serious view of any stoppage of industry," the Minister said, "irrespective of whether it be by companies, employers or workers. Never were we in greater need of close co-operation between ail agents in lhe field of production than at the present time and both companies and men must realise that the lights of the country and the Empire are paramount and that anybody wrio stands in the way of the expansion of our industries will receive no quarter so far as the Government is concerned."